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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Fear.

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Examples

  • Non satis aestimare, an melior parens natura homini, an tristior noverca fuerit: Nulli fragilior vita, pavor, confusio, rabies major, uni animantium ambitio data, luctus, avaritia, uni superstitio.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And though Socrates himself was there to comfort him, ubi pristina virtutum jactatio O Axioche? where is all your boasted virtue now, my friend? yet he was very timorous and impatient of death, much troubled in his mind, Imbellis pavor et impatientia, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In place of the very words of Virgil, Ubi luctus et pavor et plurima mortis imago, he wrote Ubi luctus regnant et pavor.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Irruat super eos formido et pavor in magnitudine Brachii tui,

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And than sey men 2 vers of the psautre, 3 sithes: _Irruat super eos formido et pavor in magnitudine Brachii tui, Domine,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • (Aqui yaz aquel que par neua cosa nunca eve pavor en seu corazon)

    The Alhambra 2002

  • (Aqui yaz aquel que par neua cosa nunca eve pavor en seu corazon)

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Nisi Deus patris mei, Deus Abraham, et pavor Ishac fuisset pro me, certe nunc vacuum dimisisses me: afflictionem meam et laborem manuum mearum vidit Deus, et increpavit to nocte praeterita.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Et timor vester et pavor vester erit super omnem bestiam terrae, et super omne volatile coeli, cum omnibus quae gradiuntur in terra, et omnibus piscibus maris: quia manui vestrae tradita sunt.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Illam alteram admiratio viri, et pavor praesens nobilitavit.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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