Unterrified

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

  Also U.S. ‘derisively applied to the Democratic party’: 1832–63, in Thornton, Amer. Gloss., s.v.

1609.  Daniel, Civ. Wars, VI. lxxviii. Yet standes he stiffe, vndash’t, vnterrifi’d.

1670.  Flatman, Death of Albemarle, v. Ever unterrified his valour stood Like some tall rock amidst a sea of blood.

1753.  Smollett, Ct. Fathom, xli. The chevalier, unterrified by this dreadful salutation, desired he would accompany him to a more convenient place.

1764.  Ann. Reg., Chron., 87/1. The robin … comes in … unterrified by the number of persons.

1821.  Shelley, Adonais, iv. He went, unterrified, Into the gulf of death.

1856.  Olmsted, Slave States, 178. The attempt to suppress discussion has given every advantage to the unterrified partisans on both sides.