dreadless
adjUK /ˈdɹɛdləs/
Etymology From Middle English dredles, dredeles, equivalent to dread + -less.
1
Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
- 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, →OCLC:
- 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 […], →OCLC:
2
Obsolete Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
- Safe in his dreadless den.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
- Derived terms
- dreadlessly, dreadlessness