a. rare. [UN-1 7.]

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  † 1.  Having no dread; unapprehensive (of). Obs.

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c. 1400.  Comm. Luke i. 13 (MS. Bodl. 143). Þe deuels cruelte is best ouercomon bi vndredeful feiþ.

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1648.  Herrick, Hesper., Christian Militant. A man prepar’d against all ills to come,… Undreadfull too of courtly thunderclaps.

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  2.  Not causing dread.

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1611.  Florio, Informidabile, vndreadfull, not terrible.

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  So Undreadfully adv., † without dread or fear.

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c. 1430.  Life St. Katherine (Roxb. Club), 34. She made vppon hir self þe token of þe crosse und vndredfully went vnto þe paleys.

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a. 1440.  Found. St. Bartholomew’s (E.E.T.S.), 55. For cause, yn rycchynge of thy-self othir men thou spoylid vndredfully, now thou begynnyst to nede.

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