appallment

English

Alternative forms

• appalment

Etymology

From appall +‎ -ment.

Noun

appallment (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) depression occasioned by terror; dismay
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “appallment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)