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Abeared vs Afeared - What's the difference?

abeared | afeared |

As verbs the difference between abeared and afeared

is that abeared is past tense of abear while afeared is past tense of afear.

As an adjective afeared is

afraid.

abeared

English

Verb

(head)
  • (abear)

    • abear

    English

    Verb

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  • (obsolete) To bear; to carry.
  • (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To behave; to comport oneself.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.12:
  • *:So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield [...].

    • Usage notes

    * (endure) Used in the negative nowadays.

    Derived terms

    * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Bearing, behavior.

    • afeared

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (afear)

    • Adjective

  • (dialectal) Afraid.
  • * 1886 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), "(A Study in Scarlet)"
    • I ain't afeared of anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.