fearfulness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FE'ARFULNESS, noun 1. Timorousness; timidity. 2. State of being afraid; awe; dread. A thing that makes a government despised, is fearfulness of, and mean compliances with, bold popular offenders. 3. Terror; alarm; apprehension of evil. Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Isaiah 33:14.
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