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unfear

unfear noun: absence of fear; fearlessness.

Noun

unfear (uncountable)

  1. Absence of fear; fearlessness.
    • It would have been easy now to run on home and beat him there but she did not. She let some seconds go by in which her unfear of him—if unfear it was—would proclaim itself, then turned, with her parasol and basket. “what is it,” she said.2009, John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg, page 163

Origin of unfear

From un- + fear.

Questions about unfear

What does unfear mean?
Unfear means absence of fear; fearlessness.
What part of speech is unfear?
Unfear is a noun.

Words near unfear in the dictionary

  1. unfazable
  2. unfazeable
  3. unfazed
  4. UNFCCC
  5. unfealty
  6. unfear
  7. unfear'd
  8. unfearable
  9. unfeared
  10. unfearful
  11. unfearfully

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