impavidadj.
/ɪmˈpavɪd/ rare.
Fearless, undaunted.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > courage > fearlessness > [adjective]
unfrighta1325
fearlessa1400
unafraid1423
unaghasta1510
unfearful1544
unafeard1568
unaffrighted1590
unterrified1595
unamazed1598
frightless1606
unfrighted1611
dauntlessa1616
undauntless1654
intremendous1659
unfrightened1675
unscared1743
unfearing1796
sans peur1812
well-plucked1824
unfrightful1837
impavid1857
tremorless1869
nerveless1959
1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone xviii He put the message into his pocket..and won the rubber before he rose..Impavid as the Horatian model-man.
1862 S. Lucas Secularia 181 A high spirit..resting impavid on its consciousness of right.
1897 Globe 12 Jan. 1/3 The flames were quenched, and the impavid student fared forth on his way.
Derivatives
imˈpavidly adv. fearlessly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > courage > fearlessness > [adverb]
without faintise1297
unfearfullyc1430
uneerilyc1480
fearlessly1685
dauntlessly1813
impavidly1850
unaffrightedly1891
unfearingly1895
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxviii. 280 Calverley and Coldstream would have looked on impavidly.
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