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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1808-1897
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TERRIFICATION, n. The action of terrifying; a state or condition of terror, alarm, fright (Cai. 1905 E.D.D.; Sh., ne.Sc. 1972); a source of alarm, a terror. Rare and obs. in Eng.Sc. 1808 E. Grant Letters from Mts. III. 180:
She was a terrification to me.Ayr. 1821 Galt Annals x.:
It was a terrification to hear her sometimes.Ags. 1853 W. Blair Aberbrothock 3:
Fat a terrification Bailie Wichtman's kye got in their byre.Per. 1897 C. M. Stuart Sandy Scott's Bible Class 76:
Aye in a terrification that folk 'ill mak a fool o' ye.
