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appallment

noun

Etymology

From appall + -ment. This word is likely a nonce; Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed to have coined it, but there are uses that predate Holmes and others that are unlikely to have picked it up from his use.

  1. derived from apalir
  2. inherited from apallen
  3. suffixed as appallment — “appall + ment”

Definitions

  1. Shock or depression occasioned by terror or disgust

    Shock or depression occasioned by terror or disgust; dismay; the state of being appalled.

    • the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appallment to the rest: that there died upon the place all the chieftains

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA