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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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Friends, I have lost hope: mine heart seeth not   Or help, or bulwark from the storm of war,   Now that the aweless Hector, who was once   Troy's mighty champion, is in dust laid low.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

Sorrow closes the lot of such aweless, unbridled madness: stability is for the calmly reverent life, knitting whole houses in sweet domestic harmony.

From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Moulton, Richard Green

This insensitive viewpoint, aweless before the cosmic spectacle, arouses a train of events which brings its own awakening.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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