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flinchless en · ADJ

Etymology

From flinch + -less.

Meanings

  1. Unflinching; boldly resolute.
    • The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect. 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 445:

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more flinchless Degree=Cmp lexicographic