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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not frightened.

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Examples

  • Although by this pact Count Pierre's private wars were ended, the old warrior, unaffrighted by the anathema of excommunication, launched by

    The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

  • Indeed, she clapped her hands in the rush of strength she felt, both in her young muscles and her leaping spirit, and stood proudly listening to the echo dying away, unaffrighted.

    The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse

  • The blue-birds sang in the goldening boughs, unaffrighted by the constant roll of elegant equipages in which, at this hour, the residents of the stately mansions on either side the road were taking the air; and the crickets hopped about undisturbed in the crevices of the gray stone walls.

    The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various

  • Alexander converses with trees who foretell the future to him; he drinks from the fountain of youth; he gets into a glass barrel lighted by lamps, and is let down to the bottom of the sea, where he watches the gambols of marine monsters; his army is attacked by wild beasts unaffrighted by flames, that squat in the midst of the fires intended to scare them away.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • The veil of thaumaturgy which shrouded the Orient, while not removed, was rent in twain, and for the first time in history, man had a clear vision of the world about him -- "had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness" ( "Adonais") unabashed and unaffrighted by the supernatural powers about him.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

  • Who can thus lose all pledge and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always engage the poet’s and the man’s regards.

    IV. Essays. Self-Reliance. 1841 1909

  • To-day the woodpecker tapped, the bluejay cried in those depths unaffrighted; the singing of a mountain stream, the roar of a distant waterfall alone lifted a louder voice to the eternal whisper of the pines.

    Senator North Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • For an instant the dark-browed face scowled down into his unaffrighted eyes: it seemed as if Tim might kick him into the fire.

    His "Day In Court" 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • Lucian's unaffrighted eyes blazed down, though his reply was as if to himself.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • The veil of thaumaturgy which shrouded the Orient, while not removed, was rent in twain, and for the first time in history, man had a clear vision of the world about him -- "had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness" ( "Adonais") unabashed and unaffrighted by the supernatural powers about him.

    The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884

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