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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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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

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

No strength is thine   To grapple in fight with Peleus' aweless son.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

Time, and thy charms, thou fanciest will redeem     Yon aweless Libertine from rooted vice.

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna