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How to understand this word "lest"?

Yet in that Petition there was cause for deep thought lest these beautiful, exquisite Beings, representative of the Divinity of every man, woman and child, surging forth that pressure and desire through the heart and soul might awaken the entire race instantly to a hunger and thirst after righteousness and there be no shepherds among all the sons and daughters of men to give to them an understanding of the law;

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for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution): He kept his notes by his side lest faulty memory lead him astray .

— Mister Micawber

  • for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution): He kept his notes by his side lest faulty memory lead him astray .
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for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution): He kept his notes by his side lest faulty memory lead him astray.
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