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Quotation dates: 1409-1436, 1500-1599, 1680
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Unaffrayit, ppl. adj. Also: unaffreyit, -(ef)frayit, -(af)fraid, -effeird, onaffrayit. [Affrayit p.p., Efferit ppl. adj., Effrayit p.p. Cf. e.m.E. vnafraide (1584).] Unafraid, stout, undaunted. = Onaffeird p.p., Oneffray(i)t p.p.(a) 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 209.
In steidfast ordour, to vesie vnaffrayit [L. onaffrayit] 1513 Doug. ix viii 97 (Ruddim.) (see Oneffray(i)t p.p.).
Vnaffrayit 1535 Stewart 7931.
King Caratac with curage vnaffrayit Vpoun ane plane the battell hes arrayit a1568 Bannatyne MS 143a/2.
I halsit hir all vnaffreyit(b) c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3098.
With hardy hart and vneffrayit(c) 1531 Bell. Boece II 161.
Thir men … went, with unfrayit curage, to the wallis(d) c1409-1436 Kingis Quair § 35.
Therewith vnaffraid … From beugh to beugh thay hippit and thai plaid(e) 1680 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XLV 249.
Beliving in the sufficiencie of a Saviour … quherby ye may stand unfraid befor His tribunall(f) 15.. Christis Kirk 193 (M).
Thai forsy freikis richt vneffeird Bet on with barow trammis
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