aweless

Definition

Without fear; fearless, unafraid.

Etymology

From Middle English aweles; by surface analysis, awe + -less.

Example Sentences

• "New-wrought were the knights' broad bucklers, bright without fleck or stain, / And their helms were a flashing splendour, as rode that gallant train / After the aweless Siegfried through the heart of Burgundia-land; / Never therein did heroes so goodly-apparelled stand."
• "[…] In the town / The aweless Trojans armed themselves the while / War-eager, praying to the Gods to grant / Respite from slaughter, breathing-space from toil."
• "A proud heart, evidencing itself in a saucy, malapert, aweless, and careless carriage, is most unbeseeming the condition of servants, and highly displeasing to God in them, as being opposite to that property of fear and trembling which ought to accompany their obedience: "Be obedient with fear and trembling.""