Definition of Fears

1. Noun. (plural of fear) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of fear) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fears

1. fear [v] - See also: fear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fears

fearfulness
fearfulnesses
fearing
fearless
fearlessly
fearlessness
fearlessnesses
fearlike
fearmonger
fearmongered
fearmongering
fearmongers
fearnaught
fearnaughts
fearnought
fears (current term)
fearsome
fearsomely
fearsomeness
fearsomenesses
feasance
feasances
fease
feased
feases
feasibilities
feasibility
feasibility studies
feasible
feasibleness

Literary usage of Fears

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1881)
"The personal fears of Constantius were interpreted by his council as a laudable ... fears and the public safety; whilst m private, and perhaps in his own ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Immediately after the excerpt from the charge complained of the court charged as follows : "The fears of a person should be the fears of a reasonable ..."

3. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift (1894)
"The Inhabitants subject to fears and Disquietudes. An account of the Women. AT my alighting 1 was surrounded with a crowd of People, but those who stood ..."

4. Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings ; Extending from by Daniel Defoe, William Lee (1869)
"I shall in my next tell you, that our pretended fears, and Prophecies of Famine and ... On the fears of a Famine. AJ, July i7.—Sir, The unseasonable Weather ..."

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