Dread
To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
To be in dread, or great fear.
Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
An object of terrified apprehension.
A person highly revered.
Fury; dreadfulness.
Doubt; as, out of dread.
Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
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Dread Quotations
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus Aurelius
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
Franz Kafka
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
William Butler Yeats
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
William Tecumseh Sherman
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
Dread Translations
dread in Latin is metus, formido, metuo, timeo, timor
dread in Norwegian is skrekk, frykt
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