Meaning of affrightment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The action of frightening or terrifying; intimidation.
   obsolete, uncountable
2. A cause of fear.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. Fright; fear; alarm; the fact or state of being frightened.
   archaic, uncountable

Examples

“Passionate words or blows from the tutor, fill the child's mind with terrour and affrightment; which immediately takes it wholly up, and leaves no room for other impressions.”

“I [looked] at him, when I could glance at him, with disgust little short of affrightment.”

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