dauntlessness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English dauntless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English dauntlessness From dauntless + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told him he might make himself at home.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 11:
Translations (7)
de Verwegenheit (fearlessness) · de Unerschrockenheit (fearlessness) · lv bezbailība (fearlessness) · nl onverschrokkenheid (fearlessness) · de Furchtlosigkeit (fearlessness) · de Beherztheit (fearlessness) · lv bezbailīgums (fearlessness)