unflinching

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adjective

not flinching; unshrinking: unflinching courage.

Origin:
1720–30; un-¹ + flinch¹ + -ing²

Related forms

un·flinch·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
steady, constant, steadfast, unfaltering.

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unflinching (ʌnˈflɪntʃɪŋ)

—*adj*
	not shrinking from danger, difficulty, etc

un'flinchingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

unflinching

1728, from un- (1) "not" + gerundive of flinch.

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Example sentences

How this affects their careers as well as their personal lives is explored with

unflinching honesty by the filmmakers.

Under managed capitalism, big companies offered long-term security in return

for unflinching loyalty.

If profligacy has been their social imperative, its moral corollary is

unflinching tolerance.

It must spell them out with unflinching clarity to the voting public.

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"The greatest hero of Greece was Hercules. He was a personage of quite another order from the great hero of Athens, Theseus. He was what all Greece except Athens most admired. The Athenians were different from the other Greeks and their hero therefore was different. Theseus was, of course, bravest of the brave as all heroes are, but unlike other heroes he was as compassionate as he was brave and a man of great intellect as well as great bodily strength. It was natural that the Athenians should have such a hero because they valued thought and ideas as no other part of the country did. In Theseus their ideal was embodied. But Hercules embodied what the rest of Greece most valued. His qualities were those the Greeks in general honored and admired. Except for unflinching courage, they were not those that distinguished Theseus. Hercules was the strongest man on earth and he had the supreme self-confidence magnificent physical strength gives. He considered himself on an equality with the gods."

-Edith Hamilton