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• (unabashed)- not disconcerted or embarrassed; poised, ( ,
; ); For the pictures from which we turn we shall
gaze unabashed on the beatific vision. — Samuel Rutherford;
deign = condescend = descend = vouchsafe = stoop {stoup}
• (deign)- to think fit or in accordance with one's dignity; condescend,
( ,
); On the shaded woody island His showers Allah deign, x. —
Arabian nights. English;
• (condescent)- to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a
superior position, rank, or dignity, ( ,
,
); He saw for the first time how a great man may condescend --
how unostentatiously, how fully, how delightfully—The Masquerader;
• (descend)- to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come
down, ( / , , );
They had now to descend, and the whole surface of the snow was glazed
with ice. — The Adventures of Captain Bonneville;
• descendant, ( - );
• (vouschafe)- to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension,
( / ); In fact he did not return from his
fruitless quest for gulls until well after dark, nor would he vouchsafe any
explanation of the consequent lateness of supper. — The Monster Men;
• (stoop)- to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and
downward from an erect position; A slender, stoop-shouldered man stood
up in the back of the hall. — The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein;
• to descend from one's level of dignity; condescend; deign;
• (stoup)- Ecclesiastical a basin or font for holy water at the entrance of a
church, ( ); He sat down on
the stoup, and asked in his own peculiar mode of speech, for cold water. —
The First White Man of the West;
revile = vilify = slander = slur = asperse = besmirch = smirch = smear =
calumniate = defame = denigrate = disgrace = discredit
• (revile)- to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or
speak of abusively,( , ); Let them rail, revile, censure,
and condemn, or make you the subject of their scorn and ridicule, what does
it all signify? — Dickory Cronke;
• (vilify)- to speak ill of; defame; slander, ( ,