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unaˈfraid, a.
[un-1 7.]
Not afraid; undaunted, undismayed. Also const. of.
1423Jas. I. Kingis Q. xxxv, Therewith vnaffraid,..From beugh to beugh thay hippit and thai plaid. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) I. 247 King Caratac, with curage vnaffrayit, Upoun ane plane the battell hes arrayit. 1584Hudson Du Bartas' Judith iv. (1608) 64 This while, the worthie widdow with her maid Past towards th' enmies camp not vnafraide. 1635Quarles Embl. iv. xiv. (1818) 251 Hath thy all-glorious Deity ne'er a shade..Where I might sit refreshed and unafraid? 1672Dryden Def. Epilogue Ess. (ed. Ker) I. 169 By unfeared he [B. Jonson Catiline iv. i. 32] means unafraid: words of quite a contrary signification. 1725Ramsay Gentl. Sheph. iii. i, He,..unafraid of fate, Contented spends his time. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xxviii, Where free, and unafraid, Amid the flowering brakes each coyer creature stray'd. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iii. 169 Serene and unafraid of solitude I worked the short days out. 1895C. Holland Jap. Wife iii, I never felt so unafraid of Lou..in all my life. |