affear

affear

or

affeare

vb (tr)
a variant spelling of afear
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While high up above in some fear, Galileo was flirting with gravity, So affeared, it appeared, his idea, Might end him well in captivity.
(French CJ), ctting NACI and NACW of 2002 n Minister for Immigration and Multicultraral and Indigenous Affears (2005) 222 CLR [6], [7] (Gleeson CJ, Mellugh, Gummow, Hayne, Callinan and Bell JJ).