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Astonishment   /əstˈɑnɪʃmənt/   Listen
noun
Astonishment  n.  
1.
The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. (Obs.) "A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say."
2.
Dismay; consternation. (Archaic)
3.
The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement. "Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment."
4.
The object causing such an emotion. "Thou shalt become an astonishment."
Synonyms: Amazement; wonder; surprise.





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"Astonishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Imola, where they found Caesar, who listened to their complaint with every mark of utter astonishment, denying that he had been in any way connected with the crime, nay, authorising Manenti and the French ambassador to pursue the culprits and promising that he would himself have the most active search ...
— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... the place were a more Negro-looking race than the Bengalees to whom I had previously been accustomed; and the curiosity and astonishment they displayed at seeing (probably many of them for the first time) a party of Englishmen, were sufficiently amusing. Our coolies with provisions not having come up, and it being two o'clock in the afternoon, I having had no breakfast, and being ignorant of the exclusively Jain population of the ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... of a sitting Buddha. Under this I thrust the end of the poker and twisted it outward as a lever. The hasp sprang open with a loud snap. With trembling fingers I flung back the lid. We both stood gazing in astonishment. The box was empty! ...
— The Sign of the Four • Arthur Conan Doyle
... understood less and less. It was strange, he thought, to have come to Africa to learn the story of his family. He listened with astonishment to all that the ...
— Pinocchio in Africa • Cherubini
... itself; that is, at each other, in wrathful astonishment. The swelling in the diaphragms of the squires Otterbrook, Turnbull, and Swagsides, and all the rest of the worshipful row, was too big to admit of utterance. Only Sir Roger himself burst forth ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various


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