Meanings
- not comparableCaused by or resulting from fear.
They had donned it, either to present an appropriately dignified manner, or believing it would inspire fearborne respect in the Tarentines.
2020 December 10, Mary Harlow, A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 1112 more examples
This pallid, almost frail-looking man who spoke so softly had acquired immediate authority. He had no chips on his shoulder accrued through trigger-happy, fearborne aggression.
1969, Christopher Hodder-Williams, 98.4: A Novel, →ISBN, page 182[…] a fearborne misjudgement which, of course, could be argued to reinforce his humanity until one realizes that his method inadvertently places him in the company of the veiled HYDRA plan to create Project Insight in CA:TWS.
2016 June 2, Martin Flanagan, Andrew Livingstone, Mike McKenny, The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 128
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