Unfear
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Absence of fear; fearlessness. uncountable
"It would have been easy now to run on home and beat him there but she did not. She let some seconds go by in which her unfear of him—if unfear it was—would proclaim itself, then turned, with her parasol and basket. “what is it,” she said."
Example
More examples"It would have been easy now to run on home and beat him there but she did not. She let some seconds go by in which her unfear of him—if unfear it was—would proclaim itself, then turned, with her parasol and basket. “what is it,” she said."
Etymology
From un- + fear.
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