Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SHAME-LESS-NESS
SHAME-LESS-NESS, n.
Destitution of shame; want of sensibility to disgrace or dishonor; impudence. He that blushes not at his crime, but adds shamelessness to shame, has nothing left to restore him to virtue. – Taylor.
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