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Definition of Fear
Fear

A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.

A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.

Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.

That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.

To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.

To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.

To be anxious or solicitous for.

To suspect; to doubt.

To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.

To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

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Fear Quotations

The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

Those who own much have much to fear.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Fear Translations

fear in Afrikaans is vrees
fear in Dutch is beklemming, angst, benauwdheid
fear in French is angoisse, craignent, crainte, crains, craignons
fear in Italian is angoscia, temere, paura, temere
fear in Latin is timor, vereor, terror, metus, formidilosus
fear in Portuguese is receio, recear, medo, temer
fear in Spanish is recelo, recelar, miedo, temor, temer, miedoso


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