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unˈdauntable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
That cannot be daunted; indomitable. (Freq. in 17th c.)
1587J. Harmar tr. Beza 381 The vndauntable insolencie of Pharao. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 112 He will welcome me with a fierce reioynder:..and so forth in infinitum, with an vndauntable courage. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. §222 Their enemies no lesse fierce and vndauntable, then fortunate. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 589 Of an haughtie and vndauntable spirit. a1670Hacket Life Abp. Williams i. (1693) 181 That heroick and undauntable Boldness. 1848Dickens Dombey liv, She was resolute, he saw; undauntable. |