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Definition of Afears
1. afear [v] - See also: afear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afears
Literary usage of Afears
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"Thiselton Dyer also called attention to the statement in the Daily afears (Jan.
19), that the Imperial Chancellor had introduced at the sitting of the ..."
2. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1858)
"However, your advice is excellent, and is not backed up by the undue expression
of either hopes afears. You are calm, "calm as a summer's morning," and the ..."
3. Memorials and Letters Illustrative of the Life and Times of John Graham of by Mark Napier (1862)
"pour childes afears, yet the honor of the acount of it was more than I could
justly have expekted till your ..."
4. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1887)
"afears, 74 Am. Dec. 222, and note 228; Broom, v. Walton, 74 Id. 482; dart v.
Fry, 72 Id. 690, and note 599. WHAT OBSTRUCTION IN HIGHWAY CONSTITUTES ..."