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unafraidly (comparative more unafraidly, superlative most unafraidly)

1. In an unafraid manner.
   • 1903 January, May Harris, “Whom the Gods Love”, in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, volume CVI, number DCXXXII, page 235:

     He was, I should say, unafraidly conscious of his own lack, and he put back the finer thing when he might have grasped it, because he would not—and here he showed the nobler gleam—see its beauty suffer from an alien touch.

   • 1913 February 28, “Bat in Police Station Cause of Excitement. “Lasiurus Pruinosus” Invades Precincts Which Others are Afraid Of. Perched upon Blotter. Night Stick Waves Frantically Until Intruder is Finally Landed.”, in The Knoxville Sentinel, volume XXVII, number 51, Knoxville, Tenn., page 15:

     Not the least observance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed here, but, like Sulzer, unafraidly, perched upon the desk-top flat, perched there where the copper at his blotter calmly sat—a Lasiurus Pruinosus (which is Latin for a bat).

   • 1914, Collier’s, page 12:

     How long since they had taken hands and lightly, unafraidly, tripped along life’s path?

   • 1916, Grace Livingston Hill, The Finding of Jasper Holt, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 142:

     It was as his clear eyes looked steadily, unafraidly, into the angry steel ones of the man that his young face hardened, his warrior-chin took a firm set, and the light in his face was deadened by a stab of pain.

   • 1920, Caroline A[lathea] Stickney Creevey, At Random, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, page 212:

     Give unafraidly, without counting the cost, except as you have the means and he who receives has need.

   • 1920 April 25, “Personal Cleanliness”, in Dayton Daily News, volume VI, number 5, Dayton, Ohio, society section, page 5:

     His topic was personal hygiene, and he unafraidly told the sex he was addressing that as a sex they had many virtues, but included among them was not the cleanliness of body that man is noted for.

   • 1920 May, Anne O’Hagan, “Making a Man of J. J.”, in Smith’s Magazine, volume 31, number 2, chapter IV, page 187:

     For, when he was through, Margaret touched his hand of her own accord, touched it soothingly, unafraidly.

   • 1922 September 10, Dayton Daily News‎^[1], volume XXXVII, number 20, Dayton, Ohio:

     It is told with the consecutive details in orderly array, and through it all there is the idea implanted in Miss Verinder’s breast that scandal is a thing abhorred by the English of good family, hence she hides the details unafraidly loves through the many years lest an open attachment should ruin his fame.

   • 1924 September 7, The Atlanta Constitution‎^[2], volume LVII, number 88, Atlanta, Ga.:

     What rancors the colonel is that Mr. Davis in his Sea Girt address directly and unafraidly denounced the invisible influence by name and called upon President Coolidge to do the same—which, by-the-way, he has not done.

   • 1924 November 22, “Recalling Hanna’s Day”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVII, number 163, Atlanta, Ga., page eight:

     This is a party government, and by all means party responsibility should always be placed where it belongs—directly and unafraidly upon the shoulders of the controlling party.

   • 1925 March 29, “Frank and Forceful”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVII, number 289, page two:

     When leading Georgians become more frank with each other and seek to correct errors and weaknesses by first finding and unafraidly appraising them, then Georgia will come properly into her own.

   • 1925 September 15, James A. Hollomon, “Just in Passing”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVIII, number 94, Atlanta, Ga., page four:

     I know the authorities of Habersham will do their full duty, unafraidly and without restraint as the circumstances may justify.

   • 1925 December 22, “Advertising That Harms!”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVIII, number 192, Atlanta, Ga., page eight:

     The thing to do is to remedy these weak points. That should be fundamental in any advertising campaign begun. We can remedy them only by first realizing their existence, frankly and unafraidly, and then by proceeding in a sane, sensible method to the work of elimination.

   • 1926 March, “To Chocorua”, in The Founders’ Four-Folder, volume 2, number 6, the American Youth Foundation, page twenty-two:

     You are a wise counselor, unafraidly eyeing the future with the steady consciousness of safe moorings and well-beaten trails.

   • 1927 February 24, “An Intolerable Attitude”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LIX, number 255, Atlanta, Ga., page six:

     It is a welfare movement—made as openly and unafraidly as the appeals for the community chest to carry aid to the suffering of Atlanta—that deserves not only Catholic support but the support of every individual, who believes in the eternal justice, and Christ-like religion of the golden rule.

   • 1927 April 7, Virginia Lee, “Frankness and Bad Taste”, in Progress-Bulletin, volume XXIX, number 6, Pomona, Calif., page four:

     In other words, are we of this generation unafraidly frank or are we guilty of bad taste in submitting such questions as that put forth in the letter printed below?

   • 1927 April 25, James A. Hollomon, “Just in Passing”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LIX, number 315, Atlanta, Ga., page four:

     And they chose the governor-elect as a man who would fairly represent all the people, unafraidly and with their best interests at heart.

   • 1928 November 3, “Sure—But”, in The Tampa Daily Times, thirty-fourth year, number 228, Tampa, Fla., page four-A:

     Coming down to the particular portion of the south known as Florida, it can unafraidly be said that the republican party, as exemplified in the last two national administrations, has not been its friend.

   • 1934 June, Milton R. Peril, “The Lost City”, in Amazing Stories, volume 9, number 2, chapter XIV (Doomed), page 32:

     MANSFIELD’s torso was now fully out over the ledge; his eyes stared unafraidly at the circular pit, which now looked so dreadfully close.

   • 1934 August 10, Lynn Doyle, “The Freedom Of The Press”, in Long Eaton Advertiser, volume LII, number 2,741, page 4:

     Let all who love freedom, suspect, question, and combat every attempt to restrict the spread of information. Already those who thrive by the suppression of truth are showing alarm. There is talk of danger for the young in looking unafraidly at facts.

   • 1935 March 6, “Society, Club, And Church Women’s Groups Have Many Pre-Lenten Affairs”, in The News-Palladium, Benton Harbor, Mich., page four:

     It is a tale of birth, death, love, hate, mating—(treated unafraidly by both the author of the book かつ last night’s lecturer in his polished review)—of overbearing lords, of days of early American slavery, of economic conditions of early and later America, of the simpering dames of Napoleon’s period, and the passionate women of the luxurious and seductive age of the Roman Empire.

   • 1937 February 8, Victor Murdock, “Passing of Julia King Vail with Thoughts About Her and Her Part in Wichita: Her Life and Influence in This Community During a Period Which Covered Over Fifty Years of Its Formative Stages”, in The Wichita Eagle, volume 10, number 271, Wichita, Kan., page one:

     She was unafraidly frank, but never unkind.

   • 1937 April 21, “12-Year-Old Boy is Death To Rattlers”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel, volume 95, number 95, Santa Cruz, Calif., page three:

     He doesn’t use the orthodox forked limb in his snake-killing pursuits, but just takes an ordinary stick and unafraidly flays the reptile.

   • 1938 June, Nell Flatt Goodman, “Mostly About Mrs. Ira Honnald and Her Flowers”, in The Illinois Agricultural Association Record, volume 16, number 6, page 12:

     A rabbit hops and nibbles unafraidly in and out from the bushes.

   • 1940 August, L. W. C. Tuthill, “We Discuss Heating”, in Arts & Decoration Combined with The Spur, volume LII, number 3, Artspur Publications, Inc., page 46:

     In turn the men, now unafraidly speaking out loud about how the basement should be fitted up for attractiveness, awoke to why the women folks had “taken on so” about radiators—the room they required, their unattractiveness.

   • 1944 July 31, “Lehighton Pastor Speaks at Park Service”, in The Morning Call, volume 109, number 25, Allentown, Pa., page 10:

     Meet your days courageously and tell unafraidly of your discoveries.

   • 1946, Hermann Kesten, Ferdinand and Isabella, New York, N.Y.: A. A. Wyn, Inc., page 178:

     The little boy showed no fear of the iron man, of the helmet with its heavy plumes, but unafraidly stuck its tiny fingers into the eyes and nostrils of the mighty giant.

   • 1946, Miriam McGaw Benade, quoting Augustine Ralla Ram, Toward New Horizons in India, page 54:

     We must unafraidly call the world around to heed eternal ways, and find in the following of them eternal peace and consequently build on foundations that are abiding.

   • 1948 August 30, Gracie Allen, “Snoring is Symbol Of Democracy—Loud, Long and Free”, in Telegram-Tribune, 80th year, number 5, San Luis Obispo, Caif., page eight:

     I used to think husbands snored maliciously, but now I feel that snoring is a true symbol of democracy. When I hear clear, strong snores unafraidly shaking the walls, I say to myself: “There is an American whose spirit is not shackled by dictatorship and secret police, who sleeps the loud, happy sleep of the brave and the free.”

   • 1956 April, “Eucharist Piety”, in Tabernacle and Purgatory, volume 51, number 12, Clyde, Mo.: the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, page 355:

     Those who follow Christ need a courage that comes only from God, courage to speak unafraidly against the abuses that everywhere prevail, courage to live and act in accordance with the commandments of God, courage which stems from the Bread of the Strong.

   • 1957 December 10, Walter Amann, Jr., “Outdoors Around Here”, in The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tenn., page 11:

     We could hear the birds, unconcerned about revealing their whereabouts, whistling unafraidly one to another.

   • 1959 December 19, Dick Anderson, “Week Before Christmas”, in The Evansville Press, fifty-fourth year, number 147, Evansville, Ind., page 4:

     It has been a long, long time since “we” (Evansville high school basketball) could walk unafraidly among the state’s net giants.

   • 1962, Clarence Cooper, Jr., “Not We Many”, in Black!: Three Short Novels, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, chapter five, page 316:

     She stared unafraidly at her brother.

   • 1962 April 16, Raymond F. Smith, “Predict New Drive to Hike Sales Tax”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 68, page eight:

     More, much more, space should be reclaimed from personal lives for all the unfair tax tricks that would never have been forced on us if the newspapers had unafraidly fought tax parasitism continuously as they did until World War II.

   • 1963, Rosemary Millington, A Nation of Trees: Australian Rites, New Authors Limited, page 225:

     It makes no noise, the crickets and frogs are still unafraidly creaking and croaking in the dark.

   • 1963 August 12, “Kefauver Was No Man’s Pet Coon”, in The Courier-Journal, volume 218, number 43, Louisville, Ky., page 8:

     Yet it can surely be said that he made his own luck and his own redoubtable reputation simply by being doggedly, unafraidly on the side of the people, regardless of the odds against him.

   • 1965, Far Eastern University Faculty Journal, page 35:

     Like, also, the Vietnamese marine who, captured and asked to switch allegiance to the will-’o-the-wisp Vietcong government, unafraidly refused, stoically endured torture and calmly faced execution.

   • 1965, Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the Interamerican Society of Psychology, page 366:

     By the way, other executives and employees of his company had already interestedly and unafraidly expressed their reactions by participating in the study.

   • 1965, The Illustrated Weekly of India, page 7:

     We need large-hearted, large-minded men and women at the United Nations, with vision not obscured by diplomat’s blinkers, men and women who can see the truth and act upon it unafraidly.

   • 1970, Thought, page 13:

     Sudhir had been unafraidly adventurous.

   • 1971, Helen Forrester [pen name; June Bhatia], The Latchkey Kid, Longman Canada Limited, page 179:

     She glared down at the peaceful face of a three-year-old boy, who, finger in mouth, stared unafraidly back at her.

   • 1976 June 7, Samuel Whitman, “What we need”, in Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif., page B-2:

     What this nation (または any nation) needs are leaders and citizens who believe their programs and ideas are for the common good, but still unafraidly say “I could be wrong.”

   • 1977 November 29, “Another publication shores up America’s magazine-rich fame”, in Messenger-Inquirer, volume 103, number 334, Owensboro, Ky., page 4A:

     The subjects which Human Nature unafraidly proposes to cover already have been staked out by Psychology Today, Natural History, Human Behavior and, to a lesser degree, Scientific American and Smithsonian.

   • 1983, Colin Greenland, “Footholds in the head: inner space fiction”, in The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British ‘New Wave’ in Science Fiction, London; Boston; Melbourne; Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 60:

     California candy-store window, unafraidly naked garish conscious-subconscious Jack Barron day dream, sugarplum reality that money made real.

   • 1987, Simplicio A. Reyes, In the Land of 13 Months of Sunshine, Lucena: Impression Enterprises, page 22:

     For so many nights and days, Fidel watched his child sleeping in that crib, with a joy, he attributed, unafraidly, to God s, God watching His creation in a ball of time.

   • 1992, Indian Management: Journal of the All India Management Association, page 49:

     Sloka 6.23 Nirvinna - Unafraidly cheerful.

   • 1996, Unitas, page 135:

     If she is writing about husbands, lovers, mothers, fathers, children, other women … or directly about her inner world, to describe internal landscapes, writing her mind, her body, her senses, unafraidly, seeing in poetry an honest means of expressing her own private experiences, expressing the best way she can, from that burning in her groins to that kind of burning in her soul.

   • 1998, Himalayan and Central Asian Studies: Journal of Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation, page 53:

     “[…] Ostro unafraidly sought to find new impulses until so hastily and tragically his life was taken”.

   • 2000, J. Neil Carmelo Garcia, The Sorrows of Water, Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN:

     Here is love poetry as I want it written, wish it to be written—love expressed haltingly, unafraidly, body and soul, love as sacrament and curse, a touching of pain’s raw nerves, each poem a homespun net of pain, love breathless, soundless, words withering inside the mouth, textural feel all over, sheer fluid texture, the joys however of unbodied love, bursting in all colors and details, the secret ecstasies of physical need and release, love overwhelming in whatever guise, contrasts finely juxtaposed and resolved: prayer and profanity, pardon and obloquy, predator and penitent…

   • 2011, Eddie Horton, “The Catechizing”, in Just Compass, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 162:

     Knowing it or he – so let’s just say he – was still there my eyes were unafraidly drawn evermore away panning over the mini wardrobe with all but a couple of things left on top to be packed away in the morning.

   • 2021, Dennis Collins, Crystals: Your Beginners Guide to Crystals and Healing Stones: The Ultimate and Unique Manual for Learning How to Use Gemstone in Manifesting Ritual, →ISBN:

     I listen to my argument being read through the court reader, me walking unafraidly and moving towards the Bar, and beginning my debate with a certain manner as I answer the court's inquiries with a sense of balance and maintaining my balance throughout and yet getting at the end of the day, being bombarded by difficult questions; completing the court's requirements and shaping them in my head how I speech; the tone of my speech; my expressions and so on.