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