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单词 affrightment
释义 affrightment arch.|əˈfraɪtmənt|
[f. affright v. + -ment.]
1. The action of frightening or terrifying, intimidation; also, a cause of fear. Obs.
a1619Donne Biathan. (1648) 215 Which accompanie it with so much horror and affrightment.1673Ladies Calling ii. ii. §36. 77 Invisible affrightments, the beloved methods of nurses and servants.1721Strype Eccl. Mem. IV. 67 Affrightments..which much terrified the mean-spirited.
2. The fact or state of being frightened; fright, sudden fear or alarm.
1604T. Wright Passions of Mind ii. iii. 65 Choler causeth..feares, affrightments, ill successe, and such like.1693Locke Educ. §167 Passionate Words or Blows from the Tutor fill the Child's Mind with Terror and Affrightment.1748Richardson Clarissa vii. (1811) I. 47 [I looked] at him, when I could glance at him, with disgust little short of affrightment.a1834Lamb Dram. Writers 531 Their terrors want dignity, their affrightments are without decorum.
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