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frightings

frightings is the plural of frighting.

Meaning of frighting

Noun

frighting (plural frightings)

  1. An instance of frightening; a fright;
    • and ever as great afflictions as most of our Brethren and sufferers for his Name, both in mockings, scoffings, scornings, reproaches, stripes, contradictions, perils at Land, and perils at Sea, fiery tryals, cruel threatenings, grief of heart, sorrow of soul, heats and colds, fastings and...1662, Katharine Evans, This is a short relation of some of the cruel sufferings (For the Truths sake) of Katharine Evans & Sara Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta, page 31

Questions about frightings

What is frightings the plural of?
Frightings is the plural of frighting.

Words near frightings in the dictionary

  1. frightfuller
  2. frightfully
  3. frightfulness
  4. frightfulnesses
  5. frighting
  6. frightings
  7. frightless
  8. frightly
  9. frightmare
  10. frightmares
  11. frightment

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