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Webster 1913 Edition

Affrightment

Af-fright′ment

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Noun.
Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm.
[Archaic]
Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child’s mind with terror and
affrightment
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Locke.

Webster 1828 Edition

Affrightment

AFFRI'GHTMENT

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Noun.
Affright; terror; the state of being frightened. [Rarely used.] [In common discourse, the use of this word, in all its forms, is superseded by fright, frighted, frightful.]

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