daunt
UK /dɔːnt/ US /dɔnt/
verb 2name 1
Definitions
verb
1
To discourage, intimidate.
[The English] valiantly, and with the ſlaughter of many, put backe the enemy: which was ſo farre from daunting the Normans, that by it they were more whetted to re-enforce themſelues vpon them[…]
Death I'll meet, my soul no terrors daunting, Take the life for which thy heart is panting, Spare not thou, though he spare, his life granting, Or let death end us both at a blow.
2
To overwhelm.
name
1
A surname from Middle English.
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