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  • adverb In an undaunting manner.

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undaunting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • So now, said Frazer, he was going for Polk—“the bosom friend of Old Hickory … the man who stood up in defence of the old hero during the panic session … the man who fought so bravely and so undauntingly the whigs of Tennessee—the pure, whole hog, locofoco democrat, who goes against … the ring-streaked and speckled whig party, with all its odious, abominable measures.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • So now, said Frazer, he was going for Polk—“the bosom friend of Old Hickory … the man who stood up in defence of the old hero during the panic session … the man who fought so bravely and so undauntingly the whigs of Tennessee—the pure, whole hog, locofoco democrat, who goes against … the ring-streaked and speckled whig party, with all its odious, abominable measures.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • Powell's goal is not quite so selfless, but she chases it undauntingly.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Fred Perry 2009

  • Powell's goal is not quite so selfless, but she chases it undauntingly.

    Julie & Julia Fred Perry 2009

  • Nipper, wiping her black eyes, and fixing them undauntingly on Mr

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • When the Assembly attempted to extort from him a humiliating recantation, he undauntingly answered their threat, that "rather than resign my rights and privileges as a British subject, I would suffer my right hand to be cut off at the bar of the house."

    An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

  • I can not bear to hear it, 'said Susan Nipper, wiping her black eyes, and fixing them undauntingly on Mr Dombey's infuriated face.

    Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

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