feard

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Verb

feard

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of fear
    • 1897, Joseph Hocking, The Birthright:
      We was feard for a long time that you was dead, but you're oal right now.
    • 1874, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1:
      His horned forehead doth make faynt heartes feard.
    • 1609, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess:
      Opinion, that great foole, makes fooles of all, And (once) I feard her till I met a minde Whose grave instructions philosophical), Toss'd it [is, F] like dust upon a march strong winde, He shall for ever my example be, And his embraced doctrine grow in me.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
      XXXVIII The second was as Almner of the place, His office was, the hungry for to feed, 335 And thristy give to drinke, a worke of grace: He feard not once him selfe to be in need, Ne car'd to hoord for those whom he did breede: The grace of God he layd up still in store, Which as a stocke he left unto his seede; 340 He had enough, what need him care for more?

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