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- noun Obsolete spelling of
fear .
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Examples
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Dauid more plainly doth call the feare of God: the onely remedie agaynst all inchantementes of sinne.
The Scholemaster 1870
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Dauid more plainly doth call the feare of God: the onely remedie agaynst all inchantementes of sinne.
The Scholemaster 1570
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_Dauid_ more plainly doth call the feare of God: the onely remedie agaynst all inchantementes of sinne.
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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In 1634 William Fennor wrote in his Palinodia: "And tosse their Pancakes up for feare they burne."
Archive 2009-02-01 Michele Ann Young 2009
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The woods are so covered with baboones, monkies, apes and parrots, that it will feare any man to travaile in them alone.
Essays 2007
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For they feare least euill spirits or winds should come together with the parties that enter in.
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And in our iourney betweene him and his father, wee trauelled in great feare.
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Notwithstanding we entred so into his presence with feare and bashfulnes.
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Tartars, and you wished me also that I should not feare to write long letters, I haue done as your maiestie inioined me: yet with feare and reuerence, because I want wordes and eloquence sufficient to write vnto so great a maiestie.
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For many there be, that performe the same action which a wise man doth, not wisely but more vndiscreetly: of which number I feare myselfe to be one.
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