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Bodily fear

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apprehension of physical injury.

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I'll tell you what it is: it's silent fretting and constant anxiety on your account, mingled, I suspect, with something of bodily fear on her own.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
Whilst the clothes lasted which had been prepared for her marriage, these casual glances of interest caused her no inconvenience, but as soon as she was compelled to don the wrapper of a fieldwoman, rude words were addressed to her more than once; but nothing occurred to cause her bodily fear till a particular November afternoon.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
We are not to be put in bodily fear, and that ill-conditioned fellow shall be held to bail again.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
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