Fearer

Quick meaning: Fearer is a noun meaning One who fears, especially one who fears God; a worshipper.

Meaning

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;) […]

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.

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.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include god, dreader, devotee, theophobia, fear, phobe.

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