Definition of Dread

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Definition of Dread

Dread

To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

To be in dread, or great fear.

Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.

Reverential or respectful fear; awe.

An object of terrified apprehension.

A person highly revered.

Fury; dreadfulness.

Doubt; as, out of dread.

Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.

Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

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Dread Quotations

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus Aurelius

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
William Butler Yeats

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
Franz Kafka

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
Toni Morrison

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton

Dread Translations

dread in Latin is metus, formido, metuo, timeo, timor
dread in Norwegian is skrekk, frykt

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