Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Amazement; terror; fright; fear.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Ghastliness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Amazement ;terror ;fright ;fear .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English gastnes, gastnesse, from gast, past participle of gasten ("to terrify"), equivalent to ghast + -ness.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word ghastness.
Examples
-
Oscarre, the greate Dane, gave hest hee shulde bee forslagene with the commeynge Sunne: no tears colde availe; the morne cladde yn roabes of ghastness was come, whan the Danique Kynge behested Oscarre to arraie hys
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.