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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

Example Sentences

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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

We must make allowance for the intoxication of recent triumph and final victory over a triumphing and victorious enemy; or who but would start back at the aweless temerity of this assertion?

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge

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

From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way

No strength is thine   To grapple in fight with Peleus' aweless son.

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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