Chiefly Sc. [ad. L. terrificātion-em, n. of action from terrificāre to TERRIFY.] The action of terrifying; the fact or condition of being terrified; consternation, extreme alarm, terror, fright.
1612. in W. James, Deeds East Lothian (1899), 29. For ane examplar terrificatioun to all Godles harlottis to flie and abhorre the lyk.
1797. Earl Malmesbury, Diaries & Corr., III. 504. Now and then he tried terrification, by letting out some strong Jacobin phrases.
1833. Galt, in Fraser’s Mag., VIII. 657. He was in an awful terrification.
b. transf. A source of alarm or dismay; a terror.
a. 1806. Mrs. Grant, Lett. fr. Mount. (1806), III. 180. She was a terrification to me.
