unfearing


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unfearing

(ʌnˈfɪərɪŋ)
adj
having no fear
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Adj.1.unfearing - invulnerable to fear or intimidationunfearing - invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
bold - fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"
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References in classic literature ?
What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easygoing, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have been his pipe.
The hand of Fate had snatched all their souls; and by the stirring perils of the previous day; the rack of the past night's suspense; the fixed, unfearing, blind, reckless way in which their wild craft went plunging towards its flying mark; by all these things, their hearts were bowled along.
Ms Jilani certainly was an unfearing critic of power, violence and the rot in politics and she spared no one in her regular columns for Dawn, The Nation and The Express Tribune over the years.