Affrightment

"Affrightment" in a Sentence (2 examples)

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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