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frightening, vbl. n. and ppl. a.|ˈfraɪt(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. frighten v. + -ing2.]
That frightens. Hence frighteningly adv.
1715Burnet Hist. Ref. III. 390 note, I do not find there was any frightning Threatnings. c1854Faber Hymn, Predestination vi, And still the frightening echoes grow, As it goes sounding on. ― Divine Favours v, Why didst Thou come so frighteningly. 1865Englishman's Mag. Oct. 298 The number and variety of living things is positively frightening. 1906W. J. Locke Beloved Vagabond xi, The backward vista down the years is too frighteningly long. 1921Galsworthy To Let i. ii, She was frighteningly self-willed. 1922A. S. M. Hutchinson This Freedom iv. i. 251 Her mother had scalded her hand and had cried out to her, frighteningly. 1952E. Hobsbawm in Granta 15 Nov., Most of us—at any rate the frighteningly large number which gets into print—specialise in the tedium of telling you how mistaken we were about politics. |