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unblenched

American  
[uhn-blencht] / ʌnˈblɛntʃt /

adjective

Archaic.
  1. undaunted.


unblenched British  
/ ʌnˈblɛntʃt /

adjective

  1. obsolete undismayed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of unblenched

First recorded in 1625–35; un- 1 + blench 1 + -ed 2

Example Sentences

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What heart unblenched can dare to meet this day, A day of darkness and of dire dismay?

From The Poetry of Wales by Jenkins, John

He sat there unblenched and apparently unmoved, though it was plain that he was intensely watchful and ready.

From The Prairie Chief by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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 Killen, W. D. (William Dool)

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 Beardslee, Clark S.

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 Willcock, John

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