adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a fearless manner; boldly, intrepidly.
1585. Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 441. Happy is he who can fearlessly stand before the Son of God, the judge of quick and dead.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., Matt. x. 27. What I speak to you alone or in Parables, that publish fearlesly to all the World.
1774. Pennant, Tour Scotl. in 1772, 327. Highlanders in the eagerness of the chace will fearlessly spring over these Barathra.
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., viii. The only difference between them was, that Mrs. Squeers waged war against the enemy openly and fearlessly, and that Squeers covered his rascality, even at home, with a spice of his habitual deceit.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxix. 399. The Esquimaux dog of Smith’s Sound encounters the wolf fearlessly and with success.
