unblenched
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of unblenched
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Only Macaulay's "schoolboy" would probably be found to enter upon it with unblenched countenance, and to accomplish it successfully.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
Piety never more decisively asserts its celestial birth than when it stands unblenched under the frown of the persecutor, or calmly awaits the shock of death.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
That holy Shame which ne'er forgets The unblenched renown it used to wear; Whose blush remains when Virtue sets To show her sunshine has been there.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
"She passes on in unblenched majesty," said Lady Delacour.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 03 by Maria Edgeworth
It can gaze unblenched and unamazed into the awful face of evil.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
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