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undismayed en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + dismayed.

Meanings

1. Not dismayed; calm and undaunted.
   • So the noble prince proceeded undismayed up fells and screes, along narrow footpaths and ways where they were forced into single file, ledges on cliffs above lairs of water-monsters. 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 46:
   • But was not that the cobweb which she had wrecked? Had she without knowing turned back, or was it another web? Calmly, and again undismayed, the spider was industriously respinning in repair. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 288:
   • Undismayed he continued to flail with the broken half of it, denting many a helmet[.] 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 46:

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undismayedly