Unfeared

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  † 1.  Not affected by fear; undismayed. Obs.

1435.  Misyn, Fire of Love, 100. Als þi saule criste truly has soght & vnferde & in sekynge wolde not cees.

c. 1475.  Cath. Angl., 127/2 (A). Vn-Ferde, vbi hardy.

1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, I. lii. Vnfear’d in fight, vntir’d with hurt or wound.

1611.  B. Jonson, Catiline, IV. i. Though Heauen should speake, with all his wrath at once,… we should stand vpright, and vnfear’d.

1627.  May, Lucan, II. 556. He yet vnfear’d, his anger doth retain.

  2.  Not regarded with fear; undreaded.

1612.  Two Noble K., I. ii. 71. A most unbounded Tyrant, whose successes Makes heaven unfeard.

1667.  Milton, P. L., IX. 187. Nor nocent yet, but on the grassie Herbe Fearless unfeard he slept.

1796.  Coleridge, Destiny of Nations, 146. That … herself Unfeared by Fellow-natures, she might wait On the poor labouring man with kindly looks.

1839.  Bailey, Festus, 291. It is the thing Unfeared and unforethought which tempts, betrays.

1868.  Morris, Earthly Par. (1870), I. II. 597. Till death unfeared at last shall come to me.