Meaning of Daunting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. gerund of daunt.
2. The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation.
3. The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming.

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Examples

“Face to face with the true mountains, / I stood silently and still; / Drawing strength for fancy's dauntings, / From the air about the hill, / And from Nature's open mercies, and most debonaire goodwill.”

“But stigmatise it as we please there never was a great man without a strong will, and an infusion of self-reliance sufficient to raise him above the dauntings of opposition and reliance on props.”

“Then came in two by two, other Troopes, whoſe onſets, and ouer-throwes, honours, and diſgraces, darings, and dauntings, merit an ample Chronicle, rather than an Abſtract; [...]”

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