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affrightened
affrightened
English
Adjective
affrightened (comparative more affrightened, superlative most affrightened)
- (archaic) frightened, affected by fright
- 1868, Robert Black, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times:
- First imprisoned, then shorn and shut up in a monastery, afterwards a fugitive and secretly urged on to attempt a rising against his father, he was so affrightened at his perils, that he got a faithful servant to strike him dead, that he might not fall into the hands of his hostile step-mother.
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