without fear or favour Definition

fear
noun

1. Anxiety and distress caused by the awareness of danger or expectation of pain.

Thesaurus: fright, phobia, dread, horror, terror, panic, trepidation, apprehension, foreboding; Antonym: courage, fortitude.
2. A cause of this feeling.
3. relig.
Reverence, awe or dread.

verb feared, fearing

1. To be afraid of someone or something.

Thesaurus: worry, dread, tremble, take fright, shudder at.
2. To think or expect something with dread.

Thesaurus: suspect, anticipate, foresee.
3. To regret something; to be sorry to say something.

Idiom: for fear of ... (for fear that ...)

Because of the danger of something or that something will happen.

Idiom: in fear of something or someone

Frightened of it or them.

Idiom: no fear

colloq
No chance; definitely not
Example: no fear of winning
Example: No fear!

Idiom: put the fear of God into someone

colloq
To terrify them.

Idiom: without fear or favour

Completely impartially.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon fær calamity.

Phrasal Verb: fear for something

To be frightened or anxious about it.
Example: feared for their lives