All 3 Uses of
daunt
in
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- He was long unshaved; but what most distressed and even daunted me, he would neither take his eyes away from me nor look me fairly in the face.
Chpt 3 *daunted = discouraged or intimidated
- I asked, daunted, but still curious.†
Chpt 12
- With that I set off, undaunted, across the top of the isle, to fetch and carry it back.†
Chpt 14undaunted = not discouraged or intimidatedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undaunted means not and reverses the meaning of daunted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
to discourage or intimidate