What does affrightful mean?

affrightful

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Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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"[…]so when he awakes from sleep, and says to himself, "Shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now when I was asleep?" he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his melancholy fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep."

more affrightful (comparative) most affrightful (superlative)

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