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Afeard vs Feard - What's the difference?

afeard | feard |

In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between afeard and feard

is that afeard is (archaic) afraid while feard is (archaic) (fear).

As an adjective afeard

is (archaic) afraid.

As a verb feard is

(archaic) (fear).

afeard

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) afraid
  • * , V.ii.
    • Pray you pass with your best violence;
    I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=John Hough, Jr. , title=Seen the Glory , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Simon and Schuster , isbn=9781416589655 , page=192 , passage=He's afeard of you, Luke. Don't you know that? }}

    Related terms

    * afear

    feard

    English

    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? }}