affrightened

English

Adjective

affrightened (comparative more affrightened, superlative most affrightened)

1. (archaic) frightened, affected by fright
   • 1868, Robert Black, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times‎^[1]:

     First imprisoned, then shorn and shut up in a monastery, afterwards a fugitive and secretly urged on to attempt a rising against his father, he was so affrightened at his perils, that he got a faithful servant to strike him dead, that he might not fall into the hands of his hostile step-mother.

   • 1883, George W. Williams, History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1‎^[2]:

     While in this timorous, jealous disposition, the cry of a plot all on a sudden struck their ears: they were wakened from their slumber, and like men affrightened and in the dark, took every figure for a spectre.

   • 1907, Erasmus W. Jones, The Young Captives‎^[3]:

     He suddenly sprang to his feet, lifted his hands on high, and exclaimed, in affrightened tone: "O ye gods, what do I behold!