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aweless

American  
[aw-lis] / ˈɔ lɪs /
Or awless

adjective

  1. displaying no awe; unawed.

  2. not to be awed; fearless.

  3. rude; impertinent.


Other Word Forms

  • awelessness noun

Etymology

Origin of aweless

before 900; Middle English, Old English; awe, -less

Example Sentences

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We must make allowance for the intoxication of recent triumph and final victory over a triumphing and victorious enemy; or who but would start back at the aweless temerity of this assertion?

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Then ceased I from my envying state,        And knew that aweless intellect      Hath power upon the ways of Fate,        And works through time and space uncheck'd.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various

Overhead, an aweless eagle, rising wing above wing says to his sweetheart, "It is my opinion God made these mountains for no other reason than that you and I might build our nest in them....."

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

But 'neath the weight   Of doom his aweless heart, his mighty limbs,   At last were overborne.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

Bold-hearted child of aweless Aeacus' son,   This as beseems a hero princely and brave,   Dauntlessly trusting in thy strength, thou say'st.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders