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noun

Dread n.

Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. "The secret dread of divine displeasure." "The dread of something after death."

Reverential or respectful fear; awe. "The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth." "His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings."

An object of terrified apprehension.

A person highly revered. (Obs.) "Una, his dear dread."

Fury; dreadfulness. (Obs.)

Doubt; as, out of dread. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Awe; fear; affright; terror; horror; dismay; apprehension. See Reverence.

verb

Dread v. t. (past & past part. dreaded; pres. part. dreading) To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. "When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind."

Dread v. i. To be in dread, or great fear. "Dread not, neither be afraid of them."

adjective

Dread adj.

Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful. "A dread eternity! how surely mine."

Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

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"Dread" Quotes from Famous Books

... intend to bring the charge against me?" asked Dreiner, in a voice husky with either emotion or dread. ...

— Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers • H. Irving Hancock

... scattered like chaff before the wind, looking wild-eyed over their shoulders in dread of the pursuing cannon-ball, dodging in and out among the houses and off ...

— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon

... with their force. The wind, which had gone down so suddenly, sprang up again, buffeting the house as it rushed by with the storm. Grant stood in the whim-room, in the dim light of the lamp turned low, and watched the steady breathing of his little guest with as much anxiety as if some dread disease threatened him. For the first time in his life there came into Grant's consciousness some sense of the price which parents pay in the rearing of little children. He thought of all the hours of sickness, of all the childish hurts and ...

— Dennison Grant - A Novel of To-day • Robert Stead

... But when a man she had cooked breakfast for, had talked with just a few hours ago, lay dead in the bunk-house, she forgot that it was merely an expected incident of Western life. She lay in her bed shaking with nervous dread, and the shrill rasping of the crickets and tree-toads ...

— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower

... looks—a vagueness of gaze, a loose-lipped, too-ready smile, a vacancy of expression. Some there were who scowled sullenly enough, others who sat crouched apart, solitary souls, who, I learned, felt themselves outcast; others again crouched in corners haunted by the dread of a pursuing ...

— Great Britain at War • Jeffery Farnol

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