unaffrighted

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ affrighted.

Adjective

unaffrighted (comparative more unaffrighted, superlative most unaffrighted)

  1. (archaic) Not afraid.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
      While you faint-hearted baſe Egyptians, / Lie ſlumbering on the flowrie bankes of Nile, / As Crocodiles that vnaffrighted reſt, / While thundering Cannons rattle on their ſkins.
    • 1659, T Livius [i.e., Livy], “”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie , London: W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, , →OCLC, page 766:
      Some fevv of the horſes kept their ſtanding ſtill unaffrighted, and even thoſe they had much ado to ſaddle, to bridle, and to mount upon; []