Both Uses of
daunt
in
And The Mountains Echoed
- "I might have chosen 'daunting' as a more fitting adjective," he said.†
Chpt 6daunting = discouraging or intimidating
- Madaline's stories stirred up an old restlessness in me, an urge I'd always had to strike out headlong into the world, to be dauntless.
Chpt 8 *dauntless = without discouragement or intimidationstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in dauntless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
Definition:
to discourage or intimidate