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unflinchingly

unflinchingly adverb: without showing fear or indecision; resolutely.

Adverb

unflinchingly (comparative more unflinchingly, superlative most unflinchingly)

  1. Without showing fear or indecision; resolutely.
    • Ursula, raising her head, looked unflinchingly into Mina's shifty eyes.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 278
    • I felt myself a match for the most ferocious bull in the herd, and I know, had such a bull charged upon me, that I should have met it unflinchingly and quite coolly, and I know that I should have killed it.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

Forms of unflinchingly

comparativemore unflinchingly
superlativemost unflinchingly

Origin of unflinchingly

From unflinching + -ly.

Questions about unflinchingly

What does unflinchingly mean?
Unflinchingly means without showing fear or indecision; resolutely.
What part of speech is unflinchingly?
Unflinchingly is an adverb.

Words near unflinchingly in the dictionary

  1. unflighted
  2. unflightworthy
  3. unflighty
  4. unflimsy
  5. unflinching
  6. unflinchingly
  7. unflinchingness
  8. unflinty
  9. unflip
  10. unflippable
  11. unflippant

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