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Definition of Dauntlessness
1. Noun. Resolute courageousness.
Generic synonyms: Braveness, Bravery, Courage, Courageousness
Derivative terms: Dauntless, Intrepid
Definition of Dauntlessness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dauntlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dauntlessness
Literary usage of Dauntlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christianity and Modern Infidelity: Their Relative Intellectual Claims Compared by Williams Morgan (1859)
"... and with all the mad dauntlessness of enthusiastic bigotry, fought the battle
through till not one tribe was left of their race in Palestine, ..."
2. The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest by Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz (1903)
"After his father's cowardice, such energy and dauntlessness alone —" " dauntlessness!
... It is the dauntlessness of the man in Father In- ..."
3. The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society by American-Irish Historical Society (1911)
"... the muzzles of Colonel Walton's guns are the best evidence what manner of men
they were who pressed on to death with the dauntlessness of a race which ..."
4. Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged by Walter Baxendale (1888)
"dauntlessness, in the face of death. Condorcet, as is well known, even during
the Reign of Terror, when himself doomed to the guillotine, employed the time ..."
5. History of Latin Christianity: Including that of the Popes to the by Henry Hart Milman (1881)
"Becket had all the dauntlessness, ... but while his dauntlessness would command
boundless admiration, few, if any, would seek the more genuine sign of ..."
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