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# dread

«dread» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **fear, be scared** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

fear, be scared

### part of speech

verb (also noun)

### meaning for a pupil

To be very afraid of something that will happen; as a noun, great fear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dread/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "dread" is mostly a noun for fear, and the verb sounds old-fashioned. "Dread not" is an old form of "don't be afraid."

### examples

- Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them. (Torah DEU.1.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dread/#x1)
- Then a great dread fell upon her. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dread/#x2)
- For I was in dread of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. (Torah DEU.9.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dread/#x3)

### primary record

dread

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 58 (Torah 9, tales 49, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 6.6 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.28/)
- [For I was in dread of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.285/)
- [The LORD of hosts, Him shall ye sanctify; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.175/)
- [A God dreaded in the great council of the holy ones, and feared of all them that are about Him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1568/)
- [Turn away my reproach which I dread; for Thine ordinances are good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2202/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dread» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dread/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.