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Comment by ajross

4 days ago

> adrade(?)

"adread", meaning afraid

Still a recognizable archaic word, constructed from a still-in-use root. Just the spelling is different.

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dataflow  4 days ago

Ahh of course! Yeah I guess if I'd read the sentence a few more times it might have been possible to guess that too. Thanks!

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