unaffrighted

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adjective

Not afraid.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectiveunaffrighted (comparative more unaffrighted, superlative most unaffrighted)

comparative more unaffrighted · superlative most unaffrighted

  1. archaicNot afraid.

    Some fevv of the horſes kept their ſtanding ſtill unaffrighted, and even thoſe they had much ado to ſaddle, to bridle, and to mount upon; […]

    1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XXXVII]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC, page 766
    1 more example

    While you faint-hearted baſe Egyptians, / Lie ſlumbering on the flowrie bankes of Nile, / As Crocodiles that vnaffrighted reſt, / While thundering Cannons rattle on their ſkins.

    c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i

Origin

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Chicago

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