affrightmentarch.|əˈfraɪtmənt|[f.affright v. + -ment.]1.†The action of frightening or terrifying, intimidation; also, a cause of fear. Obs.a1619DonneBiathan. (1648) 215Which accompanie it with so much horror and affrightment.1673Ladies Calling ii. ii. §36. 77Invisible affrightments, the beloved methods of nurses and servants.1721StrypeEccl.Mem.IV. 67Affrightments..which much terrified the mean-spirited.2.The fact or state of being frightened; fright, sudden fear or alarm.1604T. WrightPassions of Mind ii. iii. 65Choler causeth..feares, affrightments, ill successe, and such like.1693LockeEduc.§167Passionate Words or Blows from the Tutor fill the Child's Mind with Terror and Affrightment.1748RichardsonClarissa vii. (1811) I. 47[I looked]at him, when I could glance at him, with disgust little short of affrightment.a1834LambDram. Writers 531Their terrors want dignity, their affrightments are without decorum.