astonishment

Definition

The feeling or experience of being astonished; great surprise.

Etymology

From astonish + -ment.

Example Sentences

• "The class looked on in astonishment as their teacher proceeded to tear the pages out of the textbook."
• "1630, John Milton, “On Shakespear” in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Ruth Raworth, 1645 p. 27, Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thy self a live-long Monument."
• "[…] he dismissed all his Attendants with a turn of his Finger; at which, to my great astonishment, they vanished in an Instant, like Visions in a Dream, when we awake on a sudden."

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