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