Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who fears.

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  • noun One who fears.

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  • noun One who fears.

Etymologies

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fear +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Ah Rose, finally another snake fearer, spider friend! lol It seems we are in the minority though.

    Weavings « Fairegarden 2010

  • A walk in the park, for the dog fearer, is no walk in the park.

    Dogs: face to face with my worst enemy 2010

  • This, Trillin said, made just as much sense to an oyster-fearer as eating them in the mouth.

    June « 2008 « BuzzMachine 2008

  • This, Trillin said, made just as much sense to an oyster-fearer as eating them in the mouth.

    Oh, those Brits « BuzzMachine 2008

  • Perhaps a god-fearer will be less likely to cap her and take the whole 5 mill once it's collected.

    Spam Evolution Rogers 2006

  • First, It is evident that a gross ignorance of the law, either in making the vow or in executing it, is by no means to be ascribed to Jephthah, who was, though a military man, a man of piety, a fearer of God, and well acquainted with the sacred writings.

    A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967

  • I spent a quarter of an hour in a fearful solitude, listening for knocks at the door, as a ghost-fearer might at midnight, and 'came home' none the worse in any way.

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

  • But Mr. Drayton was not a hater of his species, nor a fearer of it; and though he had not acquired precisely our American habits and customs, he was disposed to be as little strange to them as possible.

    David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • All what I want is a definitive answer, and it is much fearer [fairer] to say "yes" or

    Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878

  • [268: 1] Fuller says of the crocodile -- "He hath his name of χροχό-δειλος, or the Saffron-fearer, knowing himself to be all poison, and it all antidote."

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

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