be apprehensive of

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In recusal questions, he said longstanding judicial ethics guidelines state a judge "should not be swayed by partisan demands, public clamor or considerations of personal popularity or notoriety, nor be apprehensive of unjust criticism."

From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2011

Let none, except the authors themselves, be apprehensive of delations, which, as a subject, I have always condemned, and, as a prince, will severely punish.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Milman, Henry Hart

You need not now be apprehensive of my bounty-money: I have ceased to be a soldier; when I was one, you might have thought more charitably of me.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

"No one need be apprehensive of suffering by faults of this kind."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Flora began to be apprehensive of the loquacious and observant mistress and maid.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.