unblenched

American  

[uhn-blencht] / ʌnˈblɛntʃt /

adjective

Archaic.

1. undaunted.

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unblenched British  

/ ʌnˈblɛntʃt /

adjective

1. obsolete undismayed

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Etymology

Origin of unblenched

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

Example Sentences

Only Macaulay's "schoolboy" would probably be found to enter upon it with unblenched countenance, and to accomplish it successfully.

From Project Gutenberg

It can gaze unblenched and unamazed into the awful face of evil.

From Project Gutenberg

Now I tread these floors with a proud step, and meet your eye with unblenched brow, because it is necessary to show you that in defence of my opinions I feel neither fear nor guilt—but when I walk from this place into the wilderness of the world, my steps will falter and my face will pale, because my path will lie over the grave of my child.'

From Project Gutenberg

Ah! how many there are, who dare unseen dangers, who even meet the reality of peril with flashing eye, a fevered cheek, and brow unblenched, but who, in the dread pause between plan and action, quail at the loud beating of their own hearts!

From Project Gutenberg

They tell that she feared not to slumber alone, in the dead of night, In accursed places; beheld, unblenched, the ribbon of light9 149 Spin from temple to temple; guided the perilous skiff, Abhorred not the paths of the mountain and trod the verge of the cliff; From end to end of the island, thought not the distance long, But forth from king to king carried the tale of her wrong.

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