unfearing
English
Etymology
un- + fearing
Adjective
unfearing (comparative more unfearing, superlative most unfearing)
- Without fearing.
- 1850, Edward Livermore, Phebe, The Blackberry Girl:
- The little Dog learned, without more ado, And soon could sit upright and walk upright too; In deepest waters unfearing could spring, And whatever was lost could speedily bring.
- 1901, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature:
- I feel that these old Northmen were looking into Nature with open eye and soul: most earnest, honest; childlike, and yet manlike; with a great-hearted simplicity and depth and freshness, in a true, loving, admiring, unfearing way.
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