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unterrifiedly en · ADV

Etymology

From un- + terrified + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an unterrified manner.
   • If both must be taken or rejected together, an alternative which we emphatically deny, what sincere and earnest thinker now, whose will is unterrifiedly consecrated to truth, can be expected to hesitate long? 1871, William Rounseville Alger, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, page 547:
   • He embraced unterrifiedly a foreign policy "which recognizes the principle of compromise and rejects the compromise of principle." 1969, Bert Cochran, Adlai Stevenson: Patrician Among the Politicians, page 155:
   • For he who wants to be the right kind of preacher, and faithfully perform his duty, must retain and assert his liberty unterrifiedly to tell the truth, without respect of persons, and rebuking if necessary great and small, rich, poor, powerful, friend and foe. 1892, Martin Luther, Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, page 348:

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