Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfear
Literary usage of Overfear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying by John Bebrett (1797)
"... was overfear on the property of a Mr. Gowdie, who had always been an affectionate
and indulgent matter to him ; he came to the ..."
2. Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think by Charles Caleb Colton (1837)
"... and not be overfear- ful of a little dust. In fact, every author is a far
better judge of the pains that his efforts have cost him, than any reader can ..."
3. A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience by Richard Baxter (1825)
"... thousandfold greater calamity, than the seeing of the devil would be: and
having been saved from his greatest malice, you should not overfear the less. ..."
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