Affrightment

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Affrightment \Af*fright"ment\, n.
     Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or
     alarm. [Archaic]
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           Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind


           with terror and affrightment.            --Locke.
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