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单词 aghastment
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aghastmentn.

Brit. /əˈɡɑːstm(ə)nt/, /əˈɡastɪm(ə)nt/, U.S. /əˈɡæstm(ə)nt/
Forms: 1500s–1600s agastment, 1800s– aghastment.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: agast v., -ment suffix; aghast adj., aghast v., -ment suffix.
Etymology: Originally < agast v. + -ment suffix. In later use < either aghast adj. or aghast v. + -ment suffix.
rare.
In early use: †terror, fright, alarm (obsolete). Later: shock, horror.
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > fright caused by alarm
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1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night F ij b This terror and agastment.
a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1683) II. iii. 116 Whether you understand David himself as a Prophet, taking up the like Agastment to speak in his own Person.
a1860 J. Younger Autobiogr. (1881) ix. 86 John gave a glance, not so much of suspicion and fearful presentiment, as of awful aghastment.
1971 Daily News (Huntington, Pa.) 27 July 10/2 To the social service partisans, their mere suggestion immediately produces pious wails of horror and aghastment.
1990 R. Price Tongues of Angels iii. 137 He took the part of ‘Blevin’—angrily hunting the truant boys, then finding them with wild aghastment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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