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aweless

American  
[aw-lis] / ˈɔ lɪs /
Or awless

adjective

  1. displaying no awe; unawed.

  2. not to be awed; fearless.

  3. rude; impertinent.


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Etymology

Origin of aweless

before 900; Middle English, Old English; see awe, -less


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Sorrow closes the lot of such aweless, unbridled madness: stability is for the calmly reverent life, knitting whole houses in sweet domestic harmony.

From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Richard Green Moulton

Her aweless spirit failed   For weariness nor fainted, but her might   Was adamantine.

From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way

But 'neath the weight   Of doom his aweless heart, his mighty limbs,   At last were overborne.

From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way

In their town   The aweless Trojans armed themselves the while   War-eager, praying to the Gods to grant   Respite from slaughter, breathing-space from toil.

From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way

Friends, I have lost hope: mine heart seeth not   Or help, or bulwark from the storm of war,   Now that the aweless Hector, who was once   Troy's mighty champion, is in dust laid low.

From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way

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