feard - What does it mean?

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (fear)

* {{quote-book|year=1897|author=Joseph Hocking|title=The Birthright|chapter=|edition= citation

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

* {{quote-book|year=1874|author=Alexander Barclay|title=The Ship of Fools, Volume 1|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=His horned forehead doth make faynt heartes feard . }}

* {{quote-book|year=1609|author=Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher|title=The Faithful Shepherdess|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=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. }}

* {{quote-book|year=1590|author=|title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I|chapter=|edition=1921 ed. citation

|passage=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? }}