fear
noun
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.
unfearing
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a word derived from
fear.
Example Sentences
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Let me keep on, abiding and unfearing Thy will always; Through a long century's ripe fruition Or a short day's; Thou canst not come too soon; and I can wait If thou come late!
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
His seamen answer’d, cheering; Around was death in horrors dight, But still they fought unfearing, Till the fire reach’d the powder-store, And all died heroes midst its roar.
From Targum by George Henry Borrow
I am climbing the Hills of Knowledge, And I speak unfearing, and say ‘I know,’Though it be not to church, or to book, or college, But to God Himself that my debt I owe.
From Hello, Boys! by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Gray hairs, a bowed form, a furrowed face, and that sort of furtive wildness which characterizes the man long hunted by his enemies, had taken the place of his former unfearing, bull-fronted ruggedness.
From Bricks Without Straw by Albion Winegar Tourgée
He looked at Corrigan while Braman examined the paper, his eyes alight with the mocking, unfearing gleam that had been in them during the fight.
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
