appalment

English

Etymology

From appal +‎ -ment.

Noun

appalment (countable and uncountable, plural appalments)

1. 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.