unblinkingly

English

Etymology

From unblinking +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈblɪŋkɪŋli/

Adverb

unblinkingly (not comparable)

1. Without blinking.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 207:

     Unblinkingly the girl kept her first vigil.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 105:

     She stood this inspection unblinkingly, incapable of the little insincerities of self-consciousness, but when it was over, and Bradly had resumed his normal face, she gave a relieved wriggle, as if satisfied by an ordeal which obviously satisfied Bradly, for he said with approval, "Comes well, that hat; paint you in that hat; picks up reflected lights a treat, that hat."

   • 2011, Perry Anderson, “Lula's Brazil”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:

     To restore investor confidence, Lula installed an unblinkingly orthodox economic team at the Central Bank and Ministry of Finance, which hiked interest rates yet further and cut public investment, to achieve a primary fiscal surplus higher even than the figure the IMF had demanded.

Translations

without blinking

• Greek: ασκαρδαμυκτί (el) (askardamyktí)