Appallment

Quick meaning: Appallment is a noun meaning Shock or depression occasioned by terror or disgust; dismay; the state of being appalled.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

Michael Gartner, editor of The Des Moines Register & Tribune, sent him a reproachful note; Gartner was filled with appallment.

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

An old friend of mine here, Lucy Clifford (W.K.'s widow) who was there at the "high table" and has sent me a catalogue of the guests which I hang over in the appallment of fascination — or the fascination of appallment; and which, as she has just returned and I am to see her tonight, she will fill out with hideous detail — though indeed she appears, by a line she wrote me, to have enjoyed, rather, the weird desolation of it.

Word Forms

• appalment

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dismaying, astonishment, affrightment, affright, affray, affamishment.

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