Both Uses
aghast
in
Wuthering Heights
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- As to his cousin, she wept with all her might, aghast at the mischief she had done: though she said nothing.†
p. 174.2 *aghast = shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay
- He, poor man, was perfectly aghast at the spectacle of Catherine seated on the same bench with Hareton Earnshaw, leaning her hand on his shoulder; and confounded at his favourite's endurance of her proximity: it affected him too deeply to allow an observation on the subject that night.†
p. 229.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(aghast) shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay (sadness, disappointment, or worry)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)