frighting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of fright

noun

1. An instance of frightening; a fright;

   “And now not once evoked, lies Effort dead Before the frightings of a shadowed dread?”

   “The horrors, too, of the dance of madmen, their hidesous screeching, and the bell-man with his coffin and his cords for strangulation seem concrete heightenings of Sidney's words concerning the cruel conduct of the ogress, Cecropia, towards her imprisoned nieces, "giving them terrors, sometimes with noise of horror, sometimes with sudden frightings in the night, when the solitary darkness thereof might easier astonish the disarmed senses."”

   “Shortly afterward, as the "beast" continued to be "frighted," he sold his horse and shay to a fellow-preacher, Rev. Mr. Smith, who—I doubt not—went through the same elations, depressions, frightings, and self-scourgings in which the Puritan spirit and horseman's pride so strongly clashed.”