affrightment

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AFFRI'GHTMENT, noun Affright; terror; the state of being frightened. [Rarely used.] [In common discourse, the use of this word, in all its forms, is superseded by fright, frighted, frightful.]
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