Fear vs False - What's the difference?
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(lb) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
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, chapter=18 (lb) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
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(lb) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.
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To cause fear to; to frighten.
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* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To feel fear about (something); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
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, title= (lb) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
(lb) Regret.
(lb) To be anxious or solicitous for.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(lb) To suspect; to doubt.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun fear
is grass.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.fear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feer, fere, fer, from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) feren, from (etyl) , from the noun.Noun
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear .
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- I will put my fear in their hearts.
- I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Synonyms
* , terror, fright * , anxiety, apprehension * (extreme veneration) awe, reverence, veneration * See alsoDerived terms
* affear * fearful * fearless * fearmonger * fearnaught * fearsome * no fearVerb
(en verb)- Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes // For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage
- Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
- I greatly fear my money is not safe.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear —man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
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Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
- The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, thereforeI fear you.
- Fear you not her courage?
Synonyms
* be afraid of, be frightened of, be scared of, be terrorised/terrorized be * (venerate) be in awe of, revere, venerateDerived terms
* fear not * God-fearing * never fearEtymology 2
From (etyl) fere, feore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Statistics
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English
Adjective
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