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unflinchingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English unflinching Middle English -ly English -ly English unflinchingly From unflinching + -ly.

Meanings

1. Without showing fear or indecision; resolutely.
   • Ursula, raising her head, looked unflinchingly into Mina's shifty eyes. 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 278:
   • I felt myself a match for the most ferocious bull in the herd, and I know, had such a bull charged upon me, that I should have met it unflinchingly and quite coolly, and I know that I should have killed it. 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:

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