Meaning of appallment | Babel Free

Definitions

Shock or depression occasioned by terror or disgust; dismay; the state of being appalled.

uncountable

Examples

“the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appallment to the rest⟳: that there died upon the place⟳ all the chieftains”

“I supopse we might way that if there truly has been a resurgence of interest⟳ in the state of the mind⟳ and culture of graduating students , particularly the abler ones, it could be attributed to a kind of appallment - appallment of the teacher at his own⟳ failures; appallment of the student at how little has been expected of him and how little responsibility has been put⟳ upon him for his education; appallment of the educated public at the limited and partial carry-over from formal education into everyday, actual life.”

“An old friend of mine here, Lucy Clifford (W.K.'s widow) who was there at the "high table" and has sent me a catalogue of the guests which I hang⟳ over in the appallment of fascination — or the fascination of appallment; and which, as she has just returned and I am to see⟳ her tonight, she will fill⟳ out with hideous detail — though indeed she appears, by a line she wrote me, to have⟳ enjoyed, rather, the weird desolation of it.”

“Michael Gartner, editor of The Des Moines Register⟳ & Tribune, sent him a reproachful note⟳; Gartner was filled with appallment.”

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