Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Expectation; anticipation; foreboding.
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Examples
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The schooling which Charles had been receiving a number of weeks in connection with the most fearful looking-for of the threatened wrath of the trader made it much easier for him than for her to see how he could be provided for.
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But in the heart of Hermas there was no song, no bloom, no light -- only speechless anguish, and a certain fearful looking-for of desolation.
The Blue Flower 1902
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But in the heart of Hermas there was no song, no bloom, no light -- only speechless anguish, and a certain fearful looking-for of desolation.
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Misery-or at least misery unrelieved-is confined to another period, to the days of suspense and the "dreadful looking-for" of departure; when the old life is running to an end, and the new life, with its new interests, not yet begun: and to the pain of an imminent parting, there is added the unrest of a state of conscious pre-existence.
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But in the heart of Hermas there was no song, no bloom, no light -- only speechless anguish, and a certain fearful looking-for of desolation.
The Blue Flower Henry Van Dyke 1892
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The pains of hell got hold of me, and nothing but a fearful looking-for of the judgment to come and the fiery displeasure of a sin-avenging God awaiting me.
One of the wonders of the age, or, The life and times of Rev. Johnson Olive, Wake County, North Carolina, Johnson Olive 1886
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This whole way of viewing childhood, this regretful retrospect of its vanished joys, this infatuated apotheosis of doughiness and rank unfinish, this fearful looking-for of dread old age, is low, gross, material, utterly unworthy of a sublime manhood, utterly false to
Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864
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He had defied God and man, and nothing was left to him, apparently, save "a fearful looking-for of judgment."
The Madman and the Pirate Arthur Twidle 1859
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For this sense of ill-desert, this fearful looking-for of judgment and fiery indignation, with which he is wrestling, is organic to the conscience, and the human will has no more power over it than it has over the sympathetic nerve.
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If he looks to the moral law in any form, and by any method, that he may get quit of his remorse and his fears of judgment, the feeling of unreconciliation with justice, and the fearful looking-for of judgment is only made more vivid and deep.
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