English

Verb

feard

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of fear
   • 1897, Joseph Hocking, The Birthright:

     We was feard for a long time that you was dead, but you're oal right now.

   • 1874, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1:

     His horned forehead doth make faynt heartes feard.

   • 1609, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess:

     Opinion, that great foole, makes fooles of all, And (once) I feard her till I met a minde Whose grave instructions philosophical), Toss'd it [is, F] like dust upon a march strong winde, He shall for ever my example be, And his embraced doctrine grow in me.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, 1921 ed. edition:

     XXXVIII The second was as Almner of the place, His office was, the hungry for to feed, 335 And thristy give to drinke, a worke of grace: He feard not once him selfe to be in need, Ne car'd to hoord for those whom he did breede: The grace of God he layd up still in store, Which as a stocke he left unto his seede; 340 He had enough, what need him care for more?