affrightment
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
affrightment (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The action of frightening or terrifying; intimidation.
- (obsolete) A cause of fear.
- (archaic) Fright; fear; alarm; the fact or state of being frightened.
- 1693, [John Locke], “(please specify the section number)”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 7, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- I [looked] at him, when I could glance at him, with disgust little short of affrightment.
References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “affrightment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.