unflinchingly

English

Etymology

From unflinching +‎ -ly.

Adverb

unflinchingly (comparative more unflinchingly, superlative most unflinchingly)

  1. Without showing fear or indecision; resolutely.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 278:
      Ursula, raising her head, looked unflinchingly into Mina's shifty eyes.
    • 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
      I felt myself a match for the most ferocious bull in the herd, and I know, had such a bull charged upon me, that I should have met it unflinchingly and quite coolly, and I know that I should have killed it.
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