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afeard, -ed, ppl. a.|əˈfɪəd|
Forms: 1–2 afǽred, 2–5 afered, 3 offearet, offered, 3–6 aferd, 4–6 affered, afferd; 5–6 aferde, afferde; 6 afearde, 6–7 afeard, afear'd; 7 affeard, -'d; 9 afear(e)d.
[f. afear v. + -ed. Used more than 30 times by Shakespeare, but rare in literature after 1700, having been supplanted by afraid. It survives everywhere in the popular speech, either as afeard, or 'feard; and has again been used in poetry by W. Morris.]
Affected with fear or terror; frightened, afraid.
c1000O.E. Gosp. Mark ix. 6 He wæs afæred mid eᵹe. a1090O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1083 And þa wæron þa munecas swiðe áferede of heom. c1230Ancren Riwle 8 Hit wolde..hurten ower heorte, & makien ou so offered. 1297R. Glouc. 388 Of noþing he nas aferd. c1386Chaucer Shipman's T. 400 This wyf was not affered ne affrayed. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 290/1 He..was aferd and adrad of the Sepulcre of our lord. a1560Chaucer's Test. of Love i. 276/1 He that is afearde of his clothes, let him daunce naked. 1563Homilies (1859) 514 Why therefore shouldest thou be afeard of the danger. 1601Shakes. All's Well v. iii. 153, I am afeard, the life of Helen, lady, Was foully snatch'd. 1605― Macb. v. i. 41 Fye, my Lord, fie! A Souldier and affear'd? 1603Greenwey Tacitus' Ann. iv. xv. (1622) 114 Some came backe and shewed themselues againe, afeard for that they were seene to be afeard. 1664Pepys Diary (1879) III. 10, I am sometimes afeard that he do this only in policy. a1689Popish Pol. Unmaskt 122 in T.C.P. 23/2 Stand listning now concern'd, and much afear'd. 1868W. Morris Earthly Par. I. 23, I was sore afeared At all the cries and wailing that I heard. Ibid. I. 373 She woke and heard A rustling noise, and grew right sore afeard. |