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S(c)ham(e)les, adj. (adv.). Also: schaim-, and -lis. [ME and e.m.E. schomeleas (Ancr. R.), schamlese (a1370), schameles (c1412), OE sc(e)amléas, sc(e)omléas; S(c)ham(e n.]

A. adj. Lacking (a sense of) shame, untouched by shame, immodest, audacious, impudent, unrepentant; that is a cause of shame, disgraceful. a. Of persons, etc. b. Of actions, sayings, states, etc.a. 1513 Doug. iv Prol. 170.
And quha schameles dowblis thar syn, ha fy!
1560 Rolland Seven S. 2068.
Curst creature and also shameles seid Ane honest turne I can not of thé reid
Ib. 7909. 1568 Haddington Corr. II 270.
The schameles boutschour, George Dowglas
1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 113.
Thay blast out lyk schameles bairdis that the Pape is the cheif antichrist
1581-1623 James VI Poems I 27/144.
Ye blow abrod But shame, athort the world, your shameles god
1596 Dalr. I 68/6.
Thir schameles and finȝet goddis
1614 Forbes Defence of the Lawfull Ministers of Reformed Churches (1614) 35.
We … would laugh him to heading as a shameles lier
c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5215.
Ane maruellous potent kyng Quhilk with ane schameles face sall ryng
1562-3 Winȝet II 54/30.
Ar thai ony found sa indurat, sa inueterat, and of sa schamelis a forret?
b. 1560 Rolland Seven S. 10461.
Gif ȝe will not schaw furth the veritie, Ane schameles deid … ȝe sall baith die
1562-3 Winȝet I 44/26.
The abomination of wychecraft and schameles mantening thairof in contempt of God and His law
Ib. 52/24.
Be the quhilk schameles testimonie of thair awin toungis
Ib. 52/34.
For na man is of ony iugement quha markis nocht thair schaimles confusioun
a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitl. F. 53/127.
I hait all schameles gloriositie And me delyte in modest schamefastnes
1581-1623 James VI Poems I 23/72.
Frenchemen … Whose mignarde writts, but … fayned teares and shameles tales retaine
a1585 Polwart Flyt. 565 (T).
The loun man lik his womeit and deny His schameles sawis
1594 Charteris Wall. Pref. 171.
Their schameles impudencie
1600 in Melvill 478.
At what tyme the Papes cam to that schamles usurpatioun of bathe the swords
1609 Elgin Rec. I 232.
The extraordinair and schameles derth of bootis and shoone

B. adv. Without (any sense of) shame. = Schameleslie adv. 1570 Sat. P. xviii 82.
Schamt is that sort, with schame thai wilbe schent; Schamt schameles, schame hes schawin vnto this natioun

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