dreadless
English
Etymology
From Middle English dredles, dredeles, equivalent to dread + -less.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɹɛdləs/
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Adjective
dreadless (comparative more dreadless, superlative most dreadless)
- Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- So doubly is distrest twixt ioy and cares / The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight, / Hauing escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- 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 […].
- (obsolete) Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
- Safe in his dreadless den.
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