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comparative more dreadless, superlative most dreadless
Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid. quotations examples
So doubly is distrest twixt ioy and cares / The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight, / Hauing escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
And to make shew of his dreadlesse magnanimitie, having caused a pan of burning coales to be brought, he saw and suffred his right arme […] to be parched and wel-nigh rosted-off […].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
(obsolete) Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. quotations
Safe in his dreadless den.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene