English
Pronunciation
IPA: WEAE /��mez.m�nt/
Noun
en-noun
- uncountable The condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
- context|countable|archaic A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
#*1682, w:Samuel_Willard|Samuel Willard, The fiery tryal no strange thing, Samuel Sewell, Boston, p. 16,
#*:Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them.
#*1791, "Character of the faithful Man," in Aphorisms concerning the Assurance of Faith, W. Young, Philadelphia, p. 60,
#*:In the midst of ill rumours and amazements, his countenance changeth not.
#*1853, w:Charlotte_Bronte|Charlotte Bronte, Villette, ch. 41,
#*:Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs and amazements, when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling.
#context|countable|dated Something which amazes.
#*1913, w:Jack_London|Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, ch. 21,
#*:So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers.
#*1918, w:Christopher_Morley|Christopher Morley, "The Urchin at the Zoo," in Mince Pie,
#*:I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
- obsolete Madness, frenzy.
Translations
Dutch: t|nl|verwondering
References
R:Webster 1828
R:Webster 1913
R:Dictionary.com
"amazement" in Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2007 Microsoft Corporation.
"amazement" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus © Wordsmyth 2002.
"amazement" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press 2007.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
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