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  • verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of fear

Etymologies

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fear + -est

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Examples

  • And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

    FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010

  • If this thou fearest, be sure there's nought thou wouldst not fear.

    Rhesus 2008

  • I bid thee and I will guarantee thy safety from that thou fearest; but, if thou cross me, I will kill thee.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And how cometh it that thou fearest the son of Adam, thou, with thy bulk of body and thy swiftness of running when I, for all my littleness of stature am resolved to encounter the son of Adam and, rushing on him, eat his flesh, that I may allay the affright of this poor duck and make her dwell in peace in her own place?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.'

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • For what will spiteful tongues say of me, when thou, my mother, who more than all others fearest for my safety, bidst me undertake this enterprise?

    The Suppliants 2008

  • If this thou fearest, be sure there's nought thou wouldst not fear.

    Rhesus 2008

  • For what will spiteful tongues say of me, when thou, my mother, who more than all others fearest for my safety, bidst me undertake this enterprise?

    The Suppliants 2008

  • And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.'

    Week 14: I, Abraham 2008

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