unfearing

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ fearing.

Adjective

unfearing (comparative more unfearing, superlative most unfearing)

1. Without fearing.
   • 1850, Edward Livermore, Phebe, The Blackberry Girl‎^[1]:

     The little Dog learned, without more ado, And soon could sit upright and walk upright too; In deepest waters unfearing could spring, And whatever was lost could speedily bring.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 129:

     What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; […]

   • 1901, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature‎^[2]:

     I feel that these old Northmen were looking into Nature with open eye and soul: most earnest, honest; childlike, and yet manlike; with a great-hearted simplicity and depth and freshness, in a true, loving, admiring, unfearing way.