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Definition of Affrayed
1. affray [v] - See also: affray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affrayed
Literary usage of Affrayed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chronicle of Froissart by Jean Froissart (1901)
"... was so affrayed that he durst go no farther, Robert Canol slayne: and the
knightes that were at the gate caused him Howe sir ..."
2. Elizabethan Sonnet-cycles by Martha Foote Crow (1896)
"This done, she fled as one that was affrayed, And I desired to kiss by kissing
more; My love she frowned, and I my kissing stayed, Yet wished to kiss her as ..."
3. The History of the Kirk of Scotland by David Calderwood (1843)
"... to mak the king affrayed, and to suspect some interprise. ... that they were
affrayed in earnest, upon some privat intelligence of some interprise; ..."
4. The British Admirals: With an Introductory View of the Naval History of England by Robert Southey, Robert Bell (1833)
"... wherein we did put our confidence in the goodness of God, and shewed ourselves
to be nothing affrayed of them, but kept together, close by a wind, ..."
5. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarchos, Donato Acciaiuoli (1896)
"Nowe, it was reported that Caesar was comming in his litter: for he determined
not to stay in the Senate all that day (bicause he was affrayed of the ..."
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