appallment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Shock or depression occasioned by terror or disgust; dismay; the state of being appalled. uncountable
    — the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appallment to the rest: that there died upon the place all the chieftains

词形变化

appalment alternative

词源

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.
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