affrightment

== English == === Etymology === From affright +‎ -ment. === Noun === affrightment (uncountable) (obsolete) The action of frightening or terrifying; intimidation. (obsolete) A cause of fear. (archaic) Fright; fear; alarm; the fact or state of being frightened. === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “affrightment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.