appalment
English
Etymology
appal + -ment
Noun
appalment (countable and uncountable, plural appalments)
- The state of being appalled or alarmed.
- 1834, John Ashburner, On dentition and some coincident disorders, page 226:
- One patient, in walking through the street, may be quite appalled at the approach of a runaway horse. The degree of appalment in another may be quite trifling.
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