ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not awed or awestruck. Also const. by.
1693. Dryden, Ovid’s Met., I. 116. Unforc’d by Punishment, un-aw’d by fear, His words were simple, and his Soul sincere.
1728. Pope, Dunciad, III. 223. Persist, by all divine in Man unaw’d.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 669. I have proceeded all along with an unawed freedom, doing my utmost to cast all prejudices aside.
1807. Byron, Episode of Nisus, 95. With anxious tremors, yet unawed by fear, The faithful pair before the throne appear.
1867. H. Macmillan, Bible Teach., 73. The pine … standing lonely and unawed … in the midst of fearful horizons of snow-mountain and glacier.
