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English
Noun
feare (countable and uncountable, plural feares)
- Obsolete spelling of fear.
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Of the Will”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, , Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 2, subsection 11, page 44:Revenge and Malice were as two violent oppugners on the one ſide, but Honeſty, Religion, Feare of God, with-held him on the other.
Verb
feare (third-person singular simple present feares, present participle fearing, simple past and past participle feared)
- Obsolete spelling of fear.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 66:Who when ſhe ſaw Dueſſa ſunny bright, / Adornd with gold and iewels ſhining cleare, / She greatly grew amazed at the ſight, / And th’vnacquainted light began to feare: For neuer did ſuch brightnes there appeare, / And would haue backe retyred to her caue, […]
Anagrams
West Frisian
Adjective
feare
- inflection of fear:
- indefinite common singular
- indefinite plural
- definite