Unafraid

a. [UN-¹ 7.] Not afraid; undaunted, undismayed. Also const. of.

1423.  Jas. I., Kingis Q., xxxv. Therewith vnaffraid,… From beugh to beugh thay hippit and thai plaid.

1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), I. 247. King Caratac, with curage vnaffrayit, Upoun ane plane the battell hes arrayit.

1584.  Hudson, Du Bartas’ Judith, IV. (1608), 64. This while, the worthie widdow with her maid Past towards th’ enmies camp not vnafraide.

1635.  Quarles, Embl., IV. xiv. (1818), 251. Hath thy all-glorious Deity ne’er a shade … Where I might sit refreshed and unafraid?

1672.  Dryden, Def. Epilogue, Ess. (ed. Ker), I. 169. By unfeared he [B. Jonson Catiline IV. i. 32] means unafraid: words of quite a contrary signification.

1725.  Ramsay, Gentl. Sheph., III. i. He,… unafraid of fate, Contented spends his time.

1748.  Thomson, Cast. Indol., II. xxviii. Where free, and unafraid, Amid the flowering brakes each coyer creature stray’d.

1856.  Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, III. 169. Serene and unafraid of solitude I worked the short days out.

1895.  Clive Holland, Jap. Wife, iii. I never felt so unafraid of Lou … in all my life.