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Definition of Dreading
1. dread [v] - See also: dread
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreading
Literary usage of Dreading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"Hermocrates the Syracusan suspected their intention, Hermo- and dreading what
might happen if their vast army, rc- treating by land and settling somewhere ..."
2. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"The Spanish government, restored to the plenitude of its absolute authority, and
dreading the example of the peaceable establishment of a constitutional ..."
3. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1847)
"Peculiar Exposure of Massachusetts, and Reasons for dreading Heresies. THE high-minded
and devout John Winthrop, the father of the Massachusetts colony, ..."
4. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1804)
"... over to his fide ; yet, dreading the very name and reputation of Pelopidas,
he went to pay his ..."
5. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1802)
"In this desperate extremity, the barons dreading the total loss of their liberties,
their lives and their possessions, had recourse to a remedy no less ..."
6. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"dreading the consequences of this, he projected a mission to Sparta, for the pnr-
pose of fomenting a war between Peloponnesus and Athens, ..."
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