Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Fearlessness; undauntedness; freedom from fear or terror.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Freedom from dread.

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  • noun fearlessness

Etymologies

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dreadless +‎ -ness

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  • The Zelmane, to whom danger was a cause of dreadlessness, slew the lion and carried the head to Philoclea, while Pamela was seen coming, and having in her hand the paw of the bear which the shepherd

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

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