flinchless
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]flinchless (comparative more flinchless, superlative most flinchless)
- Unflinching; boldly resolute.
- 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 445:
- The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.