feard
See also: fear'd
English
Verb
feard
- (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of fear
- 1897, Joseph Hocking, The Birthright:
- We was feard for a long time that you was dead, but you're oal right now.
- 1874, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1:
- His horned forehead doth make faynt heartes feard.
- 1609, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess:
- Opinion, that great foole, makes fooles of all, And (once) I feard her till I met a minde Whose grave instructions philosophical), Toss'd it [is, F] like dust upon a march strong winde, He shall for ever my example be, And his embraced doctrine grow in me.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, 1921 ed. edition:
- XXXVIII The second was as Almner of the place, His office was, the hungry for to feed, 335 And thristy give to drinke, a worke of grace: He feard not once him selfe to be in need, Ne car'd to hoord for those whom he did breede: The grace of God he layd up still in store, Which as a stocke he left unto his seede; 340 He had enough, what need him care for more?
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Anagrams
- Defra, Freda, fader, fared