unflinchingly

comparative more unflinchingly · superlative most unflinchingly

1. Without showing fear or indecision; resolutely.

   Ursula, raising her head, looked unflinchingly into Mina's shifty eyes.

   1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 278

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   I felt myself a match for the most ferocious bull in the herd, and I know, had such a bull charged upon me, that I should have met it unflinchingly and quite coolly, and I know that I should have killed it.

   1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

   She met Mrs. Dacres, of course; had to; and the interview was painful to them both; it couldn’t be anything else; but she went through it unflinchingly and unexcusingly, and wrung a respect out of Alan’s mother in spite of everything.

   1924, Concordia Merrel, chapter XVI, in Miss Pilgrim’s Progress, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 219