fear-enkindled

Updated: April 30, 2025

Theologists with an earnestness fear-enkindled, dwelt upon the biblical prophecies, and expounded them to the people with a directness and simplicity of which no previous instance had been known. It is noticeable that the popular prejudices and vulgar errors in regard to pestilences and wars errors which were wont to prevail upon every appearance of a comet were now altogether unknown.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4