frightment
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
frightment
- (obsolete) fear, the feeling of being afraid
- terror, something frightening
- 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker, Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], VVest-vvard Hoe. […], London: […] Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- All these frightments are but idle dreames.
References edit
- “frightment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.