affrightment

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af·fright

A0124000 (ə-frīt′)tr.v. af·fright·ed, af·fright·ing, af·frights To arouse fear in; terrify: "Many of nature's greatest oddities, that would affright dwellers up here, are accepted down there" (David Mazel).n.1. Great fear; terror.2. A cause of terror.
[Middle English afrighten, from Old English āfyrhtan : ā-, intensive pref. + fyrhtan, to frighten (from fyrhto, fright).]
af·fright′ment n.

affrightment

(əˈfraɪtmənt) n1. obsolete the act of causing fear or alarm2. obsolete a cause of fear or alarm3. archaic the condition of being alarmed or in a state of fear