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unafraidly

adv

Etymology

From unafraid + -ly.

  1. derived from *prāy-✻
  2. derived from *frijōną✻ — “to free; to love”
  3. derived from *friþuz✻ — “peace”
  4. derived from *friþu✻ — “security, peace”
  5. derived from effreer
  6. derived from afrayer — “to terrify, disquiet, disturb”
  7. inherited from affrayed
  8. formed as unafraid — “un- + afraid”
  9. suffixed as unafraidly — “unafraid + ly”

Definitions

  1. In an unafraid manner.

    • He was, I should say, unafraidly conscious of his own lack, and he put back the finer thing when he might have grasped it, because he would not—and here he showed the nobler gleam—see its beauty suffer from an alien touch.
    • Not the least observance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed here, but, like Sulzer, unafraidly, perched upon the desk-top flat, perched there where the copper at his blotter calmly sat—a Lasiurus Pruinosus (which is Latin for a bat).
    • How long since they had taken hands and lightly, unafraidly, tripped along life’s path?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA