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Definition of Affrighting
1. affright [v] - See also: affright
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affrighting
Literary usage of Affrighting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... as a bug-bear for an object to itself, and affrighting men into all manner of
confounded nonsense and absurdity of expressions concerning it, ..."
2. A Volume of English Miscellanies Illustrating the History and Language of by James Raine (1890)
"affrighting, p. pple. Terrifying. Affright is Old Engl. 1595. York House Book, xxxi.
69. Anthony Sandwith is charged with menacing Mr. King, ..."
3. Publications of the Surtees Society by Surtees Society (1890)
"affrighting, p. pj)le. Terrifying. Affright is Old Engl. 1595. York House Book,
xxxi. 69. Anthony Band with is charged with menacing Mr. King, ..."
4. The Works of Isaac Penington: A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of by Isaac Penington (1863)
"... that build up their Jerusalem with blood, and govern their flock with force,
affrighting them from that which they call error, and affrighting them into ..."
5. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (1909)
"The hours in which convictions were upon me, were such troublesome and such
heart-affrighting hours, that I could not bear, no not so much as the ..."
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