| 释义 |
frightment rare.|ˈfraɪtmənt|
[f. fright v. + -ment.]
a. The state of being in a fright.
b. Something that causes fright.
1607Dekker Westw. Hoe Wks. 1873 II. 338 All these frightments are but idle dreames. 1647W. Browne tr. Polexander iii. ii. 62 Bellerophon came on for all the turbulency and furious frightments of his horse. 1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 46 Sighs, plaints, horrors, frightments,..Invest these mountains. 1831J. Wilson Unimore vi. 259 Remorse there sends her frightments, Conscience hers. |