fearer
/ˈfɪəɹə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who fears, especially one who fears God; a worshipper.
Example Sentences
- "O praise the Lord: you Levies howse, assent / To praise the Lord: you all his fearers frame / Your highest praise to praise Jehovas name."
- "Come Sir, reply'd Sancho, judge you of your Knight-Errantry, and don't meddle with other Men's Fears; for I am as pretty a Fearer of Heaven as any of my Neighbours; and ſo let me diſpatch this Scum, (and much Good may't do thee honeſt Sancho;) […]"
- "1870, Richard Brock (author and publisher), A New Family Herbal; Or, A History and Description of All the British and Foreign Plants, 2nd Edition, page 396, Good advice, certainly, but the difficulty is, to be able to distinguish the real fearers of God, from those who only make a pretence to such fear."
- "But such fear binds the fearer and the goal is never achieved as the fearer abuses what is found today to create the tomorrow that does not exist. It becomes an illusory dream that always evades the fearer while holding him or her tightly in its tyranny."
Etymology
From fear + -er.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɪəɹə/
- British English: /ˈfɪəɹə/