undreading

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ dreading.

Adjective

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undreading (not comparable)

  1. Not dreading; without fear.
    • 1913, George Borrow, Romantic Ballads[1]:
      Calmly bright, all ills undreading, Emma wander'd by my side.
    • 1918, Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum, English Poets of the Eighteenth Century[2]:
      With sparing temperance, at the needful time, / They drain the sainted spring, or, hunger-pressed, / Along th' Atlantic rock undreading climb, / And of its eggs despoil the solan's nest.

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