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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fear
    n 1: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific
         pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or
         fight) [syn: fear, fearfulness, fright] [ant:
         bravery, fearlessness]
    2: an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up
       out of fear of public reaction" [syn: concern, care,
       fear]
    3: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the
       fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the
       French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for
       the law bordered on veneration" [syn: fear, reverence,
       awe, veneration]
    v 1: be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible
         or probable situation or event; "I fear she might get
         aggressive"
    2: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters
       in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!" [syn:
       fear, dread]
    3: be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement; "I fear
       I won't make it to your wedding party"
    4: be uneasy or apprehensive about; "I fear the results of the
       final exams"
    5: regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider
       hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your
       father"; "We venerate genius" [syn: reverence, fear,
       revere, venerate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fear \Fear\ (f[=e]r), n.
   A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fear \Fear\, n. [OE. fer, feer, fere, AS. f[=ae]r a coming
   suddenly upon, fear, danger; akin to D. vaar, OHG. f[=a]ra
   danger, G. gefahr, Icel. f[=a]r harm, mischief, plague, and
   to E. fare, peril. See Fare.]
   1. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of
      evil, or the apprehension of impending danger;
      apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
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   Note: The degrees of this passion, beginning with the most
         moderate, may be thus expressed, -- apprehension,
         fear, dread, fright, terror.
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               Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the
               thought of future evil likely to befall us.
                                                  --Locke.
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               Where no hope is left, is left no fear. --Milton.
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   2. (Script.)
      (a) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid,
          God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt
          toward the Supreme Being.
      (b) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
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                I will put my fear in their hearts. --Jer.
                                                  xxxii. 40.
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                I will teach you the fear of the Lord. --Ps.
                                                  xxxiv. 11.
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                Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to
                whom tribute is due . . . fear to whom fear.
                                                  --Rom. xiii.
                                                  7.
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   3. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension
      or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger;
      dreadfulness.
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            There were they in great fear, where no fear was.
                                                  --Ps. liii. 5.
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            The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a
            more equal enterprise.                --Shak.
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   For fear, in apprehension lest. "For fear you ne'er see
      chain nor money more." --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fear \Fear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feared (f[=e]rd); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Fearing.] [OE. feren, faeren, to frighten, to be
   afraid, AS. f[=ae]ran to terrify. See Fear, n.]
   1. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to
      consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
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            I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. --Ps.
                                                  xxiii. 4.
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   Note: With subordinate clause.

               I greatly fear my money is not safe. --Shak.

               I almost fear to quit your hand.   --D. Jerrold.
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   2. To have a reverential awe of; to be solicitous to avoid
      the displeasure of.
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            Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.
                                                  --Milton.
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   3. To be anxious or solicitous for; now replaced by fear
      for. [R.]
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            The sins of the father are to be laid upon the
            children, therefore . . . I fear you. --Shak.
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   4. To suspect; to doubt. [Obs.]
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            Ay what else, fear you not her courage? --Shak.
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   5. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach
      of by fear. [Obs.]
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            Fear their people from doing evil.    --Robynson
                                                  (More's
                                                  Utopia).
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            Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.      --Shak.

   Syn: To apprehend; dread; reverence; venerate.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fear \Fear\, v. i.
   To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety
   on account of some expected evil.
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         I exceedingly fear and quake.            --Heb. xii.
                                                  21.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fere \Fere\, n. [OE. fere companion, AS. gef[=e]ra, from
   f[=e]ran to go, travel, faran to travel. [root]78. See
   Fare.]
   A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife. [Obs.] [Written
   also fear and feere.] --Chaucer.
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         And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere.    --Spenser.
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   In fere, together; in company. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
FEAR, crim. law. Dread, consciousness of approaching danger.
     2. Fear in the person robbed is one of the ingredients required. to 
constitute a robbery from the person, and without this the felonious taking 
of the property is a larceny. It is not necessary that the owner of the 
property should be in fear of his own person, but fear of violence to the 
person of his child; 2 East, P. C. 718; or of his property; Id. 731 2 Russ. 
72; is sufficient. 2 Russ. 71 to 90. Vide Putting in fear, and Ayl. Pand. 
tit. 12, p. 106.; Dig. 4, 2, 3 an d 6. 



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