2. Verb. (third-person singular of fear) ¹
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Definition of Fears
1. fear [v] - See also: fear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fears
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 ..."