impavidly

English[edit]

impavidly (comparative more impavidly, superlative most impavidly)

fearlessly
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 62, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
  [I]f the fractus orbis had come to a smash, if Laura, instead of kissing Pen, had taken her scissors and snipped off his head—Calverley and Coldstream would have looked on impavidly, without allowing a grain of powder to be disturbed by the calamity.