Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not dashed; not frightened or alarmed; undaunted.

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  • adjective Not marked with a dash.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ dashed

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Examples

  • Most of the scientific drawings have been taken from the stranded fish; and these are about as correct as a drawing of a wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly represent the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of hull and spars.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • March had come in more lamb than lion, there were windflowers in the woods, and the first primroses, unburned by frost, undashed and unmired by further rain, were just opening.

    The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

  • Its ideal perfection would be that it should be unbroken, undashed by any speck of doubt.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Most of the scientific drawings have been taken from the stranded fish; and these are about as correct as a drawing of a wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly represent the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of hull and spars.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Most of the scientific drawings have been taken from the stranded fish; and these are about as correct as a drawing of a wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly represent the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of hull and spars.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Most of the scientific drawings have been taken from the stranded fish; and these are about as correct as a drawing of a wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly represent the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of hull and spars.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • "Love of my heart, think what such an hour as this might have been, not once, but again and again, and that undashed with the pain of immediate parting as now.

    The Sign of the Spider Bertram Mitford 1884

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