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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 Moulton, Richard Green

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

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

Its prayer is to hold fast the pious mind, the smooth painless life at peace with heaven and earth, instead of fighting with the invincible, aweless outcast from all law.

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

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

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

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 Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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