Full definition of shamelessness
Noun
- (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless.
- 1853, Charles Kingsley, Hypatia, ch. 7:He added to all his other shamelessness this, that he offered the patriarch a large sum of money to buy a bishopric of him.
- 1914, Joseph Conrad, The Arrow of Gold, ch. 1:"For instance as to her shamelessness. She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ."
- 1919, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Dangerous Days, ch. 50:She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest.
- (countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless.
- 1872 May 18, "The Womens Rights' Convention in New York," The Spectator, Volume 45, p. 624:Shoals of letters are published every week from all parts of the Union telling stories of the unhappiness produced by marriage, sometimes mere bursts of ill-temper, often cynical shamelessnesses, occasionally stories of deep pathos.
- 1963, James Joyce and David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake (2002 edition), ISBN 9781893311268, p. 109:He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his
noseglow nose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses about
ethers everybody ever he met. . . .
- 2006, Judith Weingarten, The Chronicle of Zenobia, ISBN 9781843862192, p. 104:He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch.
