aweless

Or aw·less

[aw-lis]

adjective

1. displaying no awe; unawed.

2. not to be awed; fearless.

3. rude; impertinent.

Other Word Forms

• awelessness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of aweless¹

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

Example Sentences

Overhead, an aweless eagle, rising wing above wing says to his sweetheart, "It is my opinion God made these mountains for no other reason than that you and I might build our nest in them....."

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Time, and thy charms, thou fanciest will redeem     Yon aweless Libertine from rooted vice.

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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.

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Then ceased I from my envying state,        And knew that aweless intellect      Hath power upon the ways of Fate,        And works through time and space uncheck'd.

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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.

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