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impavid, a. rare.|ɪmˈpævɪd|
[ad. L. impavidus, f. im- (im-2) + pavidus fearful.]
Fearless, undaunted.
1857G. Lawrence Guy Liv. xviii, He put the message into his pocket..and won the rubber before he rose..Impavid as the Horatian model-man. 1862S. Lucas Secularia 181 A high spirit..resting impavid on its consciousness of right. 1897Globe 12 Jan. 1/3 The flames were quenched, and the impavid student fared forth on his way.
Hence imˈpavidly adv., fearlessly.
1849Thackeray Pendennis lxvi, Calverley and Coldstream would have looked on impavidly. |