Word Meanings - DISMAYFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Terrifying. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to DISMAYFUL)
- TERRIFY
1. To make terrible. If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out license, it foils itself. Milton. 2. To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten. When ye shall hear of wars . . . be not terrified. Luke xxi. 9. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.