[Ads-l] I am abash=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A8dly_?=patriotic.
Dennis During
dcduring at GMAIL.COM
Tue Oct 16 15:22:43 UTC 2018
Google NGrams shows that *abashedly* occurs with less than 2% of the
frequency of *unabashedly.* But it has apparently been around at least
since the early 19th century. Langston Hughes used it in his
autobiography. See entry at Wiktionary
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abashedly#English> for more.
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Dennis C. During
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