Adjective

(en adjective)

Afraid; suffering from fear.

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He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) frightened, affected by fright

* {{quote-book, year=1868, author=Robert Black, title=A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=First imprisoned, then shorn and shut up in a monastery, afterwards a fugitive and secretly urged on to attempt a rising against his father, he was so affrightened at his perils, that he got a faithful servant to strike him dead, that he might not fall into the hands of his hostile step-mother. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1883, author=George W. Williams, title=History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=While in this timorous, jealous disposition, the cry of a plot all on a sudden struck their ears: they were wakened from their slumber, and like men affrightened and in the dark, took every figure for a spectre. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Erasmus W. Jones, title=The Young Captives, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He suddenly sprang to his feet, lifted his hands on high, and exclaimed, in affrightened tone: "O ye gods, what do I behold! }}