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单词 pavor
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pavorn.

Forms: late Middle English pavour, 1600s pavor.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pavor.
Etymology: < classical Latin pavor fear, terror, dread < pavēre to be afraid (see pavid adj.) + -or -or suffix.Compare the following apparent isolated early example of a cognate verb, apparently meaning ‘to fear’ or perhaps ‘to beseech’ (the context is somewhat ambiguous):c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 3242 My pure powarfull gods I prestly pauoure [a1500 Trin. Dub. adoure], Þine empire & þine erytage enterely þe to ȝeld.
Obsolete. rare.
Fear, terror, dread.
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a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in Western Reserve Univ. Bull. (1919) 22 70 (MED) Svche on willyng to chastice his nephew or Cosyn and to withdrawe hym from the vnlieful love of wymmen..of suche a clerk dide to write the pavour, basshidnes, and the dreede.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pavor, great fear and dread.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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