English

Adjective

dreadless ‎(comparative more dreadless, superlative most dreadless)

1. Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:

     So doubly is distrest twixt ioy and cares / The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight, / Hauing escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.40:

     And to make shew of his dreadlesse magnanimitie, having caused a pan of burning coales to be brought, he saw and suffred his right arme […] to be parched and wel-nigh rosted-off […].

2. (obsolete) Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
   • Spenser

     Safe in his dreadless den.

Derived terms

• dreadlessness