ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1586. Marlowe, 1st Pt. Tamburl., IV. i. As Crocodiles that vnaffrighted rest While thundring Cannons rattle on their Skins.
c. 1620. Fletcher & Mass., Little Fr. Lawyer, I. i. He that through all these dreadfull passages Pursued and overtook them, unaffrighted, Deserves reward.
1641. T. Hayne, M. Luther, 21 Multitius … with sharp wordes and threates so daunted the man, till now a clamorous, unaffrighted, bold face, terrible to all.
1718. Entertainer, No. 13. 84. Henderson…, whom they traduced as timorous … they found … unaffrighted with Threats, Reproaches, and Dangers.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, III. 211. I was not guilty of any Freedoms, that her Modesty, unaffrighted, could reproach itself with having suffered.
1852. M. Arnold, Self-Depend., v. Unaffrighted by the silence round them, Undistracted by the sights they see.
1886. A. Weir, Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889), 554. A generation grew up … which was unaffrighted by visions of fanaticism.
Hence Unaffrightedly adv.
1891. H. Herman, His Angel, 121. When they could unaffrightedly bask in the sunshine of their mutual happiness.
