dreadless
Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
Adjective
- Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
- So doubly is distrest twixt ioy and cares / The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight, / Hauing escapt so sad ensamples in his sight. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […]...
- And to make shew of his dreadlesse magnanimitie, having caused a pan of burning coales to be brought, he saw and suffred his right arme[…]to be parched and wel-nigh rosted-off[…]. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter...
- Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
- Safe in his dreadless den. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
Origin
From Middle English dredles, dredeles, equivalent to dread + -less.