Scare-bug

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  1. 1
    Alternative form of scarebug. alt-of, alternative

    "Thus this godly martyr derided long since this Popish scare-bug of purgatory fire, making it inferior to the Bishop's prison."

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"Thus this godly martyr derided long since this Popish scare-bug of purgatory fire, making it inferior to the Bishop's prison."

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