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unquailingly

unquailingly adverb: without quailing; bravely.

Adverb

unquailingly (comparative more unquailingly, superlative most unquailingly)

  1. Without quailing; bravely.
    • Emily looked across at the girl. Large, steady, purplish-grey eyes gazed into beady, twinkling, black ones—gazed unquailingly—with something in them that cowed and compelled. The black eyes wavered and fell, their owner covering her retreat with another giggle and toss of her short braid of hair.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon

Forms of unquailingly

comparativemore unquailingly
superlativemost unquailingly

Origin of unquailingly

From unquailing + -ly.

Questions about unquailingly

What does unquailingly mean?
Unquailingly means without quailing; bravely.
What part of speech is unquailingly?
Unquailingly is an adverb.

Words near unquailingly in the dictionary

  1. Unquachogs
  2. unquadragintillion
  3. unquaffed
  4. unquailed
  5. unquailing
  6. unquailingly
  7. unquaint
  8. unquakerlike
  9. unquakerly
  10. unqualifiability
  11. unqualifiable

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