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Unbowed   /ənbˈoʊd/  /ənbˈaʊd/   Listen
Unbowed

adjective
1.
Erect in posture.  Synonyms: straight, unbent.  "Stood defiantly with unbowed back"
2.
Not forced to bow down to a conqueror.






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"Unbowed" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tower, with his wife, under pretence of there waiting till his wounds were cured, to abide his trial, and in that awful hour Sir Nigel stood alone. Yet he was undaunted, for he feared not death even at the hangman's hand; his spirit was at peace, for he was innocent of sin; unbowed, for he was no traitor—he was a patriot warrior still. Pale he was, indeed, ashy pale, but it told a tale of intense bodily anguish. They had put him to the torture, to force from his lips the place of his brother's retreat, that being the only pretence on which the rage of Edward and the malice ...
— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar

... within him. But not without reason was he Chief, for he could control himself as well as others. A pallor spread beneath the smoky tan of his broad features, but without an instant's hesitation he strode to the front, and stood like Grom, with unbowed head, leaning calmly on his great club. His thought was that the Shining One must be indeed a god, and might, indeed, slay him from afar, like the lightning, but it could not make ...
— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts



Words linked to "Unbowed" :   erect, upright, vertical, undefeated



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