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Definition of Dauntingly
1. Adverb. To a degree or in a manner that daunts. "Dauntingly difficult"
Definition of Dauntingly
1. Adverb. In a daunting manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dauntingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dauntingly
Literary usage of Dauntingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Household Book of Poetry by Charles Anderson Dana (1882)
"... sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he ; He play'da spring, and dane'd it round,
Below the gallows-tree. " O, what is death but parting breath t On many a ..."
2. The Masters of English Literature by Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1904)
"... sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he ; He play'da spring and danc'd it round,
Below the gallows tree. Oh, what is death but parting breath ? ..."
3. The Masters of English Literature by Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1904)
"... sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he ; He play'da spring and danc'd it round,
Below the gallows tree. Oh, what is death but parting breath ? ..."
4. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1875)
"... sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he; He play'da spring, and danc'd it round,
Below the gallows-tree. Olí. what is death but parting breath? ..."
5. The Celtic Magazine by Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain (1876)
"... sa* wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he, He play'da spring and danced it round
Bulow the gallows tree. On the eighth day after his trial he was brought ..."
6. The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns, William Ernest Henley (1897)
"But Burns, while preserving throughout the spirit of his original has expressed
it in the noblest terms. CHORUS Sae dauntingly gaed he, He play'da spring, ..."
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