English Explanatory Dictionary

appallment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

appallment appalment

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.

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