feare

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Noun

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feare (countable and uncountable, plural feares)

  1. 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

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feare (third-person singular simple present feares, present participle fearing, simple past and past participle feared)

  1. 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, []

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West Frisian

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Adjective

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feare

  1. inflection of fear:
    1. indefinite common singular
    2. indefinite plural
    3. definite