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Affright vs Dismay - What's the difference?

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Affright is a related term of dismay.


As nouns the difference between affright and dismay

is that affright is great fear, terror, fright while dismay is a sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

As verbs the difference between affright and dismay

is that affright is to terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright while dismay is to disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

affright

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • great fear, terror, fright

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright
  • * Shakespeare
    • Dreams affright our souls.
  • * Milton
    • A drear and dying sound / Affrights the flamens at their service quaint.

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    dismay

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
  • Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
  • * Bible, Josh. i. 9
    • Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed .
  • * Fairfax
    • What words be these? What fears do you dismay ?
  • To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
  • * Spenser
    • Do not dismay yourself for this.
  • To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
  • * 1592 , , III. iii. 1:
    • Dismay not, princes, at this accident,