Definition of "startlement" []

• An instance of being startled; surprise. (noun)

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• "Yay for the no dropping down spiders 'cuz that would totally make me freak out and probably pee my pants in startlement and fear."
• "Every eye turned on him in startlement and fear, and Steward hushed him with a whispered command."
• "Like the smoker on the opium couch refocusing his eyes from the spacious walls of dream to the narrow confines of the mean little room, so Old Tarwater stared vague-eyed before him across his dying fire, at a huge moose that stared at him in startlement, dragging a wounded leg, manifesting all signs of extreme exhaustion; it, too, had been straying blindly in the shadow-land, and had wakened to reality only just ere it stepped into Tarwater's fire."