fear : Idioms & Phrases


Bodily fear

  • apprehension of physical injury.
Webster 1913

cape fear

  • noun a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean
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cape fear river

  • noun a river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear
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For fear

  • in apprehension lest. "For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more."
Webster 1913

god-fearing

  • adjective satellite deeply religious
    devout.
    • a god-fearing and law-abiding people" H.L.Mencken
WordNet
God"-fear`ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious.
    A brave good-fearing man. Tennyson.
Webster 1913