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Quotation dates: 1460-1531, 1596-1626
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Unaba(i)sit, Onabasit, ppl. adj. Also: unabasyt, -et, wnabasyt, onabasyt, -ed, onabais'd. [ME and e.m.E. vn-baiste (?a1400), unabashed (1571); Abaisit p.p.] Unabashed, undaunted.predic. 1460 Hay Alex. 1063.
He … vnabasit comptit him all his tale c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ii 48.
He vnabasyt [1570 vnabaisit] and nocht gretlie agast, Vpon the hed ane with the steing hitt he 1596 Dalr. II 437/2.
At the altar he stude vnabaset without al feir(b) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace x 112.
Wnabasyt(c) 1513 Doug. vi iv 54.
Eneas onabasit … Followis his gide 1513 Doug. xi xiii 141.
[She] onabasyt abaid hym in the feild 1626 Garden Worthies 111.
Onabased 1626 Garden Worthies 118.
Onabais'dattrib. a1500 Golagros and Gawane 496.
With vnabasit bernys bergane to abide 1531 Bell. Boece II 14.
As forcy and unabasit campionis, thay come aganis thair ennimes with deliverit mind
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