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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : feer-fuhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪər fəl |
Definition of fearfulness
Origin :- mid-14c., "causing fear," from fear + -ful. Meaning "full of fear, timid" (now less common) also is from mid-14c. As a mere emphatic, from 1630s. Related: Fearfully; fearfulness.
- noun fear
- You, I know, lay this to his fearfulness of disobliging or offending.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- The fearfulness of Gibson's perfidy was almost incomprehensible.
- Extract from : « Spring Street » by James H. Richardson
- Those who have not felt it know not the fearfulness of waiting for an Indian attack.
- Extract from : « The Crossing » by Winston Churchill
- The fearfulness of the consequences shows how false the supposed principle must be.
- Extract from : « Sermons » by Clement Bailhache
- How shall I describe to you this pressure, its fearfulness and sublimity!
- Extract from : « Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack » by Elisha Kent Kane
- And as for the fearfulness of it and its fierce and awesome beauty, who can describe it?
- Extract from : « Allan Quatermain » by H. Rider Haggard
- The fearfulness of their nature makes them very jealous and implacable.
- Extract from : « The History of Virginia, in Four Parts » by Robert Beverley
- He tried to grasp the situation and fearfulness does not help at such a time.
- Extract from : « The Hate Disease » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- It is only the fearfulness of the odds to which most of them are subjected that succeeds in killing them.
- Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy
- This feeling of distrust and fearfulness will soon pass away.
- Extract from : « Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. » by Edward B. Hall
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