How to pronounce“affright”in English
sentence of death pronounced against all the slaves of the prefect pedanius secundus without distinction of age or sex because one of their number driven
affrighted today though I am the high priest I can just remember that I was falling backward and should have struck the ground had not someone supported me
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Definitions of “affright”
Great fear, terror, fright.
“No one for a moment dreamed of the possible occurrence of any thing in the course of a few hours which would fill every mind with horror, and cause even the dark-hearted Martina to tremble with affright.”
To inspire fright in; to frighten, to terrify.
“VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.”
afraid; terrified; frightened
“So that thou shalt not need I say, to feare or be affright, of all the shafts that Hie by day, nor terrours of the night.”
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