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Appalment vs Appallment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between appalment and appallment

is that appalment is the state of being appalled or alarmed while appallment is (obsolete) depression occasioned by terror; dismay.

appalment

English

Noun

  • The state of being appalled or alarmed.
  • * 1834 , John Ashburner, On dentition and some coincident disorders (page 226)
    • One patient, in walking through the street, may be quite appalled at the approach of a runaway horse. The degree of appalment in another may be quite trifling.

    appallment

    English

    Alternative forms

    * appalment

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) depression occasioned by terror; dismay
    • (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)