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affrightment
noun 3
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3ADJ.
little, short
PREP.
with
ADV.
immediately
Definitions
noun
1
The action of frightening or terrifying; intimidation.
2
A cause of fear.
3
Fright; fear; alarm; the fact or state of being frightened.
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.
I [looked] at him, when I could glance at him, with disgust little short of affrightment.
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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.
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I [looked] at him, when I could glance at him, with disgust little short of affrightment.
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