dreadful, fearful / be frightened

貸し借りなしにする: (idiomatic) call it square with someone, call it even with someone

but (literary form)

adnominal of しかるべし (shikaru beshi, “appropriate”)

(idiomatic) call it square with someone, call it even with someone

the state of being square or even with someone, with nothing owed to the other party and nothing owing to oneself

in that case

叱り, 叱, 呵り, 呵: a scolding

(formal) to be like so, to be thus

叱り, 叱, 呵り, 呵: the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem form”) of 叱る (shikaru, “to scold”)