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Definition of Fear

Fear

  1. A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
  2. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
  3. Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
  4. Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
  5. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
  6. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
  7. To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
  8. To be anxious or solicitous for.
  9. To suspect; to doubt.
  10. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
  11. To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

Fear Quotations

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

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
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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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