Feard vs Fard - What's the difference?
feard | fard |
(archaic) (fear)
* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Joseph Hocking, title=The Birthright, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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.
, 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? }}
(archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
* 1791 , John Whitaker, Rev. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
(archaic) To paint, as the face or cheeks.
* Zachary Boyd
(archaic) To gloss over or embellish.
* 1606 , William Birnie, The blame of kirk-buriall
* 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord
Fard is a alternative form of feard.
In archaic terms the difference between feard and fard
is that feard is past tense of fear while fard is colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.As a noun fard is
colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.feard
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* ** faird * ** feardNoun
(-)- Painted with French fard .
Verb
(en verb)- The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.
- Our funerals wherewith we but feard death.
- Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.