Redoubtable

Definitions

1. A person who elicits respect.
   humorous, in-plural, often, sometimes
2. A person who elicits dread or fear; a formidable person.
   in-plural, often

Equivalents

Examples

“Had you sought the Lady's court yourself.— / Faced the redoubtables composing it, / Flattered this, threatened that man, bribed the other,— / Pleaded, by writ and word and deed, your cause,— / Conquered a footing inch by painful inch,— / And, after long years' struggle⟳, pounced at last⟳ / On her for prize,—the right life had been lived.”

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