fret
/fɹɛt/ noun C2- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
Plural frets
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He walked away again immediately, and she was left to fret over her own want of presence of mind: Charlotte tried to console her.
You have now done your duty by her, and must fret no longer.”
She was confident of having performed her duty; and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
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