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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.


Other Word Forms

  • awelessness noun

Etymology

Origin of aweless

before 900; Middle English, Old English; awe, -less

Example Sentences

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Its prayer is to hold fast the pious mind, the smooth painless life at peace with heaven and earth, instead of fighting with the invincible, aweless outcast from all law.

From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Moulton, Richard Green

In their town   The aweless Trojans armed themselves the while   War-eager, praying to the Gods to grant   Respite from slaughter, breathing-space from toil.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

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

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

We must make allowance for the intoxication of recent triumph and final victory over a triumphing and victorious enemy; or who but would start back at the aweless temerity of this assertion?

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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 Seward, Anna