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impavidly

impavidly adverb: fearlessly.

Adverb

impavidly (comparative more impavidly, superlative most impavidly)

  1. fearlessly
    • [I]f the fractus orbis had come to a smash, if Laura, instead of kissing Pen, had taken her scissors and snipped off his head—Calverley and Coldstream would have looked on impavidly, without allowing a grain of powder to be disturbed by the calamity.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 62, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

Forms of impavidly

comparativemore impavidly
superlativemost impavidly

Origin of impavidly

From impavid + -ly.

Questions about impavidly

What does impavidly mean?
Impavidly means fearlessly.
What part of speech is impavidly?
Impavidly is an adverb.

Words near impavidly in the dictionary

  1. impave
  2. impaved
  3. impaves
  4. impavid
  5. impavidity
  6. impavidly
  7. impavidness
  8. impaving
  9. impawn
  10. impawned
  11. impawning

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