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

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward

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.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various

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

From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way

Bold-hearted child of aweless Aeacus' son,   This as beseems a hero princely and brave,   Dauntlessly trusting in thy strength, thou say'st.

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

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