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Quotation dates: 1708
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†FEARLIE, adj. Afraid, timorously hesitant.Sc. 1708 Earls of Cromartie (ed. Fraser 1876) II. 83:
The commons are resolved to levie recruits by parishes; but it will only be by recomendation . . .: so fearlie is our senate to dissoblige our s[overei]gn lord the mobb, and to incroach on the libertie and propertie of true born Brittons.
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