dreadless
English
Etymology
From Middle English dredles, dredeles, equivalent to dread + -less.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɹɛdləs/
Adjective
dreadless (comparative more dreadless, superlative most dreadless)
- Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
- So doubly is distrest twixt ioy and cares / The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight, / Hauing escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- And to make shew of his dreadlesse magnanimitie, having caused a pan of burning coales to be brought, he saw and suffred his right arme […] to be parched and wel-nigh rosted-off […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
- (obsolete) Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
- Spenser
- Safe in his dreadless den.
- Spenser
Derived terms
- dreadlessness
Anagrams
- resaddles