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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fear.
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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In place of the very words of Virgil, Ubi luctus et pavor et plurima mortis imago, he wrote Ubi luctus regnant et pavor.
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Irruat super eos formido et pavor in magnitudine Brachii tui,
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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
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(Aqui yaz aquel que par neua cosa nunca eve pavor en seu corazon)
The Alhambra 2002
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(Aqui yaz aquel que par neua cosa nunca eve pavor en seu corazon)
The Alhambra 2002
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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
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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
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Illam alteram admiratio viri, et pavor praesens nobilitavit.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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