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单词 affrightment
释义

affrightment

English

Etymology

affright + -ment

Noun

affrightment (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The action of frightening or terrifying; intimidation.
  2. (obsolete) A cause of fear.
  3. (archaic) fright; fear; alarm; the fact or state of being frightened.
    • 1690, John Locke, Some Thoughts concerning Education:
      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.

References

  • “affrightment” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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