unawed


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unawed

(ʌnˈɔːd)
adj
not awed or daunted
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Adj.1.unawed - not awedunawed - not awed        
awestricken, awestruck, awed - having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder"
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References in classic literature ?
What other body would be likely to feel CONFIDENCE ENOUGH IN ITS OWN SITUATION, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an INDIVIDUAL accused, and the REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE, HIS ACCUSERS?
But at front and rear, unawed and indomitable, toiled the two men who were not yet dead.
Our glances, however, rested not long upon the dead--for we could not regard her unawed. The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death.
Espying the mate drawing near as he was toiling at the pump with the rest, the Lakeman affected not to notice him, but unawed, went on with his gay banterings.
This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Such are the charges, which I am daring enough to bring forward, unawed by a host of treacherous sentimentalists, (qtd Connelly 98)
She was generally unawed in meeting the famous and powerful.
Holley was equally unawed by the state of Green's school of theology.