frightment

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noun

fear, the feeling of being afraid

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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoletefear, the feeling of being afraid
  2. terror, something frightening

    All these frightments are but idle dreames.

    1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page)

Origin

From fright + -ment.

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Chicago

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