Meanings
adjectiveflinchless (comparative more flinchless, superlative most flinchless)
comparative more flinchless · superlative most flinchless
- Unflinching; boldly resolute.
The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 445
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