a. Now arch. or dial. Also 6 vnaffeard, Sc. onaffeired. [UN-1 8.] Unafraid.
15[?]. Christs Kirk, in Bannatyne MS. (Hunt. Club), 287. Than followit feymen rycht on-affeird.
1595. Daniel, Civ. Wars, III. lxxviii. The king plies his hands vndaunted, vnaffeard, And with good hart, and life for life he stird.
1812. Tennant, Anster F., VI. xli. I was not unafeared.
1868. Morris, Earthly Par. (1870), I. I. 400. The weasel peered From out the wheat stalks on her unafeard.
1898. N. Munro, John Splendid, viii. Down at the shore, unafeared of man, would be solitary hinds.