Dictionary Entry

dauntless

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/ˈdɔːntləs/Used In Literature ↓

Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.

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courage dauntlessspirit dauntless. dauntlessdive dauntlessheart dauntlessbreast dauntless

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Poetry examples for “dauntless”

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All white and black beside:
Dauntless her look, her gesture proud,
Her voice theatrically loud,

Her dauntless army scatter’d, and so small,
Her island-myriads fed from alien lands—

Should drink his Mood, mounts up to the air :
And so it fares with me, whose dauntless mind
The ambitious Mortimer would seek to curb,

That tells the dauntless spirit deep concealed,

In the drawing of a breath
Down went dauntless Craven,
He and his hundred !

He bent, he sunk beneath his grief;
His dauntless heart would fain have held
From weeping, but his eyes rebelled.

I think old Caesar must have heard
In northern Gaul my dauntless bird,
And, echoed in some frosty wold,

The pitying heart that felt for human woe,
The dauntless heart that fear’d no human pride;
The friend of man-to vice alone a foe;

But Thought has need of no such things,
For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings.

Mind’s magnanimity brought you to Hrothgar?’
Duly he answered him then dauntless,