Definitions
Was afraid of or regarded as dangerous.
Word origin
From Middle English fard, feard, ferd, ferde, fered, equivalent to fear + -ed.
Used in a sentence
“Conſcience grows feared: the heart grows hardened: while you delay, the Devil rules and rejoyceth: […]”
“[…] I’m maist feared to speak to him—and it’s an unco thing to hear ane o’ us speak that gate o’ a man—[…]”
“That which hindered was thyself / More feared of [Julius] Cæsar, than of wrongfulness; […]”
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01“Dreaded”6 letters
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