daunt

Etymology

From Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin domitō (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin domō (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Italic *domaō, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt.

verb

1. (transitive) To discourage, intimidate.
   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. [1865?], Eugène Scribe, translated by Charles Lamb Kenney, L’Africaine. An Opera in Five Acts,[…] The Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer. Translated into English[…], London: Published and sold by Chappell & Co.,[…], Boosey & Co.,[…], →OCLC, act III, page 34
   No, I shall not disgrace the Cause, I shall not grieve my comrades by weak surrender! I will fight and struggle, and not be daunted by threat or torture. 1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter //dummy.host/index.php?title=s%3Aen%3APrison_Memoirs_of_an_Anarchist%2FPart_II%2FChapter_17 17, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
   Ah, I have changed, I do not know / Why lonely hours affect me so. / In days of yore, this were not wont, / No loneliness my soul could daunt. 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, “//dummy.host/index.php?title=s%3Aen%3AA_Lost_Dream A Lost Dream”, in The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
2. (transitive) To overwhelm.