awless

Adjective

aweless (comparative more aweless, superlative most aweless)

1. Without fear; fearless, unafraid.
   • New-wrought were the knights' broad bucklers, bright without fleck or stain, / And their helms were a flashing splendour, as rode that gallant train / After the aweless Siegfried through the heart of Burgundia-land; / Never therein did heroes so goodly-apparelled stand.1911, “How Siegfried Rode to the City of Worms”, in Arthur S[anders] Way, transl., The Lay of the Nibelung Men: Translated from the Old German Text, Cambridge: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 11

   Synonyms:

   brave

2. Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear; irreverent.
   • A proud heart, evidencing itself in a saucy, malapert, aweless, and careless carriage, is most unbeseeming the condition of servants, and highly displeasing to God in them, as being opposite to that property of fear and trembling which ought to accompany their obedience: "Be obedient with fear and...[1841?], James Fergusson, “chapter VI”, in A Brief Exposition of the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, London: Thomas Ward and Co....

   Synonyms:

   presumptuous

3. (obsolete) Inspiring no awe.
   • Aye me! I ſee the ruine of my Houſe: / The Tyger now hath ſeiz'd the gentle Hinde, / Inſulting Tiranny beginnes to Jutt / Vpon the innocent and aweleſſe throne: […]c. 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: With the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battel at Bosworth Field”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies...