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Webster 1913 Edition
Astonishment
As-ton′ish-ment
,Noun.
[Cf. OF.
estonnement
, F. étonnement
.] 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. Holland.
2.
Dismay; consternation.
[Archaic]
Spenser.
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
And my quaint habits breed
astonishment
. Milton.
4.
The object causing such an emotion.
Thou shalt become an
astonishment
. Deut. xxviii. 37.
Syn. – Amazement; wonder; surprise.
Webster 1828 Edition
Astonishment
ASTON'ISHMENT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
astonishment
astonishment
English
Astonishment, lithograph by Thomas Fairland after W. H. Hunt, c. 1870s
Noun
astonishment (countable and uncountable, plural astonishments)
- amazement, great surprise
- An amazing thing or phenomenon.
- 1964: Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Everything he had seen so far — the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself — had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be any more astonishments left.
- 1964: Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Translations
amazement, great surprise
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amazing thing
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