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- noun The state or quality of being
afraid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And I would that I could make you to hear it, and that you could but borrow mine ears for a little moment, and forthwith be shaken with that utter horror and an afraidness, even as was I.
The Night Land 2007
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That actually contributed to my afraidness at night.
yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2006
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On the contrary, she was going to pull him up into it beside her, and they would sit comfortably together, suffused in light, and laugh at how much afraid of him she used to be in Hampstead, and at how deceitful her afraidness had made her.
The Enchanted April 1922
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And I would that I could make you to hear it, and that you could but borrow mine ears for a little moment, and forthwith be shaken with that utter horror and an afraidness, even as was I.
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On the contrary, she was going to pull him up into it beside her, and they would sit comfortably together, suffused in light, and laugh at how much afraid of him she used to be in Hampstead, and at how deceitful her afraidness had made her.
The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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Ravi and Sreeni shared the driving work in very good speed safely and consistently in the same route we took since we were already sick of afraidness to explore new route at this moment.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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His hesitancy to do so because of fear of being bogged down on the individual points is WRONG and that is “afraidness” and it’s tendentious actually.
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