Terrified of [was Re: Regret the error]

Stephen Calder wrote:

Sir James Murray railed against the spellings abridgment, judgment as
unscholarly. The lawyers keep looking at their bibles and insisting on
an out-of-date spelling. The journalists, terrified of lawyers, cave
in.

"Terrified of" or "terrified by"? I would say the latter, but wonder if this is a pondian thing.

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Maria Conlon

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