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- adjective
frightened ,afraid - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
affear .
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Examples
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All this was shewed in a touch and quickly passed over into comfort: for our good Lord would not that the soul were affeared of this terrible sight.
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Like fox's trailing tail by hunters sore affeared.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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Like fox's trailing tail by hunters sore affeared.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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Martellino and had already given him the strappado, were sore affeared and said in themselves, 'We have gone the wrong way to work; we have brought him forth of the frying-pan and cast him into the fire.'
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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im tired of all the funny boy bullshit i gots a hugh cock and i aint affeared to use it
This Just In: BSNYC Slaycation Announcement! (and Friday Fun Qiuz) BikeSnobNYC 2009
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There had died that very day at Pistoia, one, who, albeit his ancestors were gentlemen, was reputed the worst man that was, not only in Pistoia, but in all the world; more by token that he was in his lifetime so misshapen and of so monstrous a favour that whoso knew him not, seeing him for the first time, had been affeared of him; and he had been buried in a tomb without the church of the Minor Friars.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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