dauntsome
adjEtymology From daunt + -some.
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Tending to daunt or intimidate.
- Miss Maryllia was just as peart and dauntsome when she was her age.1904, Marie Corelli, God's Good Man, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
- At the foot of this dauntsome grind is the famous Grimsel Hospice, sold eighteen years ago to a captain of the tourist industry, after being owned and worked by the commune of Hasli for the respectable term of 520 years.1919, American Lutheran Survey: Volumes 11-12, Lutheran Survey Publishing Company, page 28: