Fear

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fear \Fear\ (f[=e]r), n.
     A variant of {Fere}, a mate, a companion. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Fear \Fear\, n. [OE. fer, feer, fere, AS. f[=ae]r a coming
     suddenly upon, fear, danger; akin to D. vaar, OHG. f[=a]ra
     danger, G. gefahr, Icel. f[=a]r harm, mischief, plague, and
     to E. fare, peril. See {Fare}.]
     1. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of
        evil, or the apprehension of impending danger;
        apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
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     Note: The degrees of this passion, beginning with the most
           moderate, may be thus expressed, -- {apprehension},
           fear, {dread}, {fright}, {terror}.
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                 Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the
                 thought of future evil likely to befall us.
                                                    --Locke.
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                 Where no hope is left, is left no fear. --Milton.
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     2. (Script.)
        (a) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid,
            God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt
            toward the Supreme Being.
        (b) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
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                  I will put my fear in their hearts. --Jer.
                                                    xxxii. 40.
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                  I will teach you the fear of the Lord. --Ps.
                                                    xxxiv. 11.
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                  Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to
                  whom tribute is due . . . fear to whom fear.
                                                    --Rom. xiii.
                                                    7.
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     3. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension
        or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger;
        dreadfulness.
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              There were they in great fear, where no fear was.
                                                    --Ps. liii. 5.
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              The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a
              more equal enterprise.                --Shak.
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     {For fear}, in apprehension lest. "For fear you ne'er see
        chain nor money more." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fear \Fear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feared} (f[=e]rd); p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Fearing}.] [OE. feren, faeren, to frighten, to be
     afraid, AS. f[=ae]ran to terrify. See {Fear}, n.]
     1. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to
        consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
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              I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. --Ps.
                                                    xxiii. 4.
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     Note: With subordinate clause.
  
                 I greatly fear my money is not safe. --Shak.
  
                 I almost fear to quit your hand.   --D. Jerrold.
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     2. To have a reverential awe of; to be solicitous to avoid
        the displeasure of.
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              Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.
                                                    --Milton.
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     3. To be anxious or solicitous for; now replaced by {fear
        for}. [R.]
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              The sins of the father are to be laid upon the
              children, therefore . . . I fear you. --Shak.
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     4. To suspect; to doubt. [Obs.]
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              Ay what else, fear you not her courage? --Shak.
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     5. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach
        of by fear. [Obs.]
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              Fear their people from doing evil.    --Robynson
                                                    (More's
                                                    Utopia).
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              Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.      --Shak.
  
     Syn: To apprehend; dread; reverence; venerate.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fear \Fear\, v. i.
     To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety
     on account of some expected evil.
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           I exceedingly fear and quake.            --Heb. xii.
                                                    21.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fere \Fere\, n. [OE. fere companion, AS. gef[=e]ra, from
     f[=e]ran to go, travel, faran to travel. [root]78. See
     {Fare}.]
     A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife. [Obs.] [Written
     also {fear} and {feere}.] --Chaucer.
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           And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere.    --Spenser.
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     {In fere}, together; in company. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fear
       n 1: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain
            or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or
            fight) [syn: {fearfulness}, {fright}] [ant: {fearlessness}]
       2: an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up
          out of fear of public reaction" [syn: {concern}, {care}]
       3: a profound emotion inspired by a deity; "the fear of God"
          [syn: {reverence}, {awe}, {veneration}]
       v 1: be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible
            or probable situation or event; "I fear she might get
            aggressive"
       2: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the
          winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
          [syn: {dread}]
       3: be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement; "I fear
          I won't make it to your wedding party"
       4: be uneasy or apprehensive about; "I fear the results of the
          final exams"
       5: regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider
          hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your
          father"; "We venerate genius" [syn: {reverence}, {revere},
           {venerate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  171 Moby Thesaurus words for "fear":
     abulia, agitation, alarm, all-overs, angst, anticipate, anxiety,
     anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern,
     anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehend, apprehension,
     apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, awe, back down, balance,
     be afraid, bete noire, bogey, bogy, buck fever, bugbear,
     cankerworm of care, care, case of nerves, chicken-liveredness,
     chickenheartedness, cold feet, cold sweat, concern, concernment,
     consternation, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, debate,
     deliberate, demur, diffidence, discomposure, dismay, disquiet,
     disquietude, distress, disturbance, dread, esteem,
     excessive irritability, expect, eye askance, faintheart,
     faintheartedness, faintness, falter, fearfulness, feeblemindedness,
     feebleness, fidgetiness, fidgets, foreboding, forebodingness,
     forebodings, foresee, frailty, fright, funk, hang back,
     have qualms, hem and haw, henheartedness, hesitate, hesitation,
     horror, hover, hum and haw, imagine, infirmity, inquietude, jib,
     lily-liveredness, malaise, milksopism, milksoppiness,
     milksoppishness, misgive, misgiving, morbid excitability, nerves,
     nervosity, nervous stomach, nervous strain, nervous tension,
     nervousness, nightmare, overanxiety, panic, panickiness, pause,
     perturbation, phobia, pigeonheartedness, pins and needles,
     pliability, ponder, presentiment, pucker, pull back, qualms,
     quiver, respect, retreat, revere, reverence, scare, scruple,
     second thoughts, shilly-shally, shrink from, shudder at, shy,
     sit upon thorns, softness, solicitude, spell of nerves,
     spinelessness, stage fright, stand aghast, state of nerves, stew,
     stick at, stickle, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain,
     strain at, suspect, suspense, tension, terror, think twice about,
     tic, timidity, timidness, timorousness, trepidation, trepidity,
     trouble, twitching, unease, uneasiness, unmanfulness, unmanliness,
     unquietness, upset, vellication, venerate, veneration, vexation,
     weak will, weak-mindedness, weakheartedness, weakness, withdraw,
     worry, yellowness, yield, zeal
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FEAR, crim. law. Dread, consciousness of approaching danger.
       2. Fear in the person robbed is one of the ingredients required. to 
  constitute a robbery from the person, and without this the felonious taking 
  of the property is a larceny. It is not necessary that the owner of the 
  property should be in fear of his own person, but fear of violence to the 
  person of his child; 2 East, P. C. 718; or of his property; Id. 731 2 Russ. 
  72; is sufficient. 2 Russ. 71 to 90. Vide Putting in fear, and Ayl. Pand. 
  tit. 12, p. 106.; Dig. 4, 2, 3 an d 6.