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affrightful, a. arch.|əˈfraɪtfʊl|
[f. affright n. + -ful: cf. frightful.]
1. Exciting fright or terror; frightening, terrifying.
1618T. Adams Pract. Wks. (1861) II. 133 The night presents to the fantasy..many deceiving and affrightful imaginations. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 68 Spectres, Bug-bears, or Affrightful Apparitions. 1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 157 That island has frequent tremblings since the great earthquake, which is very affrightfull to the inhabitants. 1800Coleridge Wallenstein i. iii. Wks. III. 266 Here every coming hour broods into life Some new affrightful monster.
†2. Full of fear, timid. Obs. rare.
1631Markham Way to Wealth ii. i. xiv. (1668) 71 Fishes of eager bite, most foolish, least affrightful, and soonest deceived. |