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Unfear vs Unnear - What's the difference?

unfear | unnear |

As a noun unfear

is want, lack, or absence of fear; fearlessness.

As a preposition unnear is

(chiefly|obsolete) not near; at a distance from.

unfear

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Want, lack, or absence of fear; fearlessness.
  • *2009 , John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg - Page 163 :
    • It would have been easy now to run on home and beat him there but she did not. She let some seconds go by in which her unfear' of him—if ' unfear it was—would proclaim itself, then turned, with her parasol and basket. “what is it,” she said.

    unnear

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (chiefly, obsolete) Not near; at a distance from.
  • * Audrey Erskine-Lindop
    • He felt not unnear tears himself.
    (Webster 1913)