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Definition of Afear
1. to frighten [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: frighten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afear
Literary usage of Afear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare's Midsummer-night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1870)
"Why do they run away ? this is a knavery of them to make me afear'd. Enter SNOUT.
SNOUT. O Bottom ! thou art chang'd : what do I see on thee ? [Exit. ..."
2. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"A sound of/ear») feared afear) 21:9. Their houses (arel safe from fear, 22:10.
sudden fear ... Fear, and the pit, and the snare, they feared afear) 44. ..."
3. Historia general de España by Juan de Mariana (1818)
"... victoria à costa de mucha sangre, resueltos de no dexar se prender, ni afear
con el cautiverio la gloria y nobleza de su linage y sus hazañas pasadas. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"Fit ad- a flatterer. the plea in his defence. Elle to spot. afear .... afear, to
cry down, to represent any thing in the worst manner. afear, to dishonour ..."
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