The word 'afeared' is a correct word and can be used in written English, although it is considered archaic and is not commonly used in modern language.
The word 'afeared' is a variation of the word 'afraid' and has the same meaning, which is feeling fear or apprehension. It is commonly used in literature and poetry. Example: The villagers were afeared of the dark forest, believing it to be haunted by a vengeful spirit.
For all its grime, Jinks's world is rich, and if her Victorian English starts out a little twee ("I ain't afeared o' bogles, Miss Meggs"), it soon grows some muscle.
Yang Lei/xh/Xinhua Press/Corbis Updated at 12.03am BST 9.11pm BST 'Be not afeared' Here comes Kenneth Branagh.
The opening night went wonderfully well until the moment when I had to perform one of the most beautiful speeches in the play which Shakespeare, with exquisitely touching irony, puts into the mouth of the misshapen, half-human Caliban: "Be not afeared - the isle is full of noises".
I think I was more afeared of them than I was of the Chinese".
Heineman's documentary (which follows on the heels of Shaul Schwarz's Narco Cultura, and Angus Macqueen and Guillermo Galdós's Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty) began life as a portrait of extremist American vigilantes patrolling the Mexican border in Arizona, afeared of the tide of drugs and people they believe are overrunning their country.
And not just any old words, but one of Shakespeare's most famous lines – "Be not afear'd, The isle is full of noises" – from Act III, Scene 2 of The Tempest.
Once Branagh delivered Caliban's speech from the Tempest – "Be not afear'd; the isle is full of noises" – all hell broke loose.
But then Sir Kenneth Branagh appeared, deputising for Mark Rylance in the guise of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, intoning the lines from The Tempest that had given Boyle his inspiration and text: "Be not afear'd / The isle is full of noises... .. Indeed it was as Evelyn Glennie, doing her Keith Moon thing, led a contingent of drummers in shattering the rural calm.
