feare

feare (countable and uncountable, plural feares)

1. Obsolete spelling of fear.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Of the Will”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 2, subsection 11, page 44:

     Revenge and Malice were as two violent oppugners on the one ſide, but Honeſty, Religion, Feare of God, with-held him on the other.

feare (third-person singular simple present feares, present participle fearing, simple past and past participle feared)

1. Obsolete spelling of fear.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 66:

     Who when ſhe ſaw Dueſſa ſunny bright, / Adornd with gold and iewels ſhining cleare, / She greatly grew amazed at the ſight, / And th’vnacquainted light began to feare: For neuer did ſuch brightnes there appeare, / And would haue backe retyred to her caue, […]

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feare

1. inflection of fear:
   1. indefinite common singular
   2. indefinite plural
   3. definite