Feard vs Ferd - What's the difference?
feard | ferd |
(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? }}
An army, a host.
* 1330 , Robert Mannyng, Chronicle
A military expedition.
* c. 1050 , The Paris Psalter
A company, band, or group.
* c. 1400 ,
*1986 , Jack Arthur Walter Bennett, ?Douglas Gray, Middle English literature - Volume 1 - Page 89 :
(obsolete) Fear.
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As a verb feard
is past tense of fear.As a noun ferd is
an army, a host.feard
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ferde, feord, furd, from (etyl) fyrd, fierd, . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- With þe wille I go als felawes in ferd .
- (With thee will I go as fellows in a ferd .)
- Þeah þu mid us ne fare on fyrd ...
- (Though thou with us not fare on a ferd ...)
- And foure scoure fyne shippes to the flete broght... with fyfty, in a furthe , all of fuerse vesell.
- (And four score fine ships to the fleet brought... with fifty in a ferd , all of fierce vessel.)
- For him a lord (British or Roman) is essentially a leader of a 'ferd' (OE fyrd); […]