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A labyrinth intended, we hear, for surprise
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amazement
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) The condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amazement \A*maze"ment\, n. The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. --Milton. Frenzy; madness. [Obs.] --Webster (1661).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "mental stupefaction," early use of the Latin suffix with a native verb, from amaze + -ment . Meaning "overwhelming wonder" is c.1600.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES in horror/amazement etc ▪ He watched in horror as the flames engulfed his house. stare in disbelief/horror/amazement etc ▪ Hilary stared in disbelief at the kitchen clock. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB express ▪ And ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising; "he looked at me in astonishment" [syn: astonishment ]
Usage examples of amazement.
I had lost the capacity for amazement when I realised that these strange quiverings on the tips of the cervix and even well past it were caused by incredibly long but thin tongues.
I have explained microscopes, to his fresh amazement that we ever built such instruments.
In the white he lifted the child off her feet, knowing that she would stop short in amazement, lest he run over her.
He kissed her warmly then and kept to himself the amazement her words had engendered.
He lost his footing on the brown floor and fell, pulling her down with him, discovering to his amazement that this floor was soft as a bed.
He felt strange touches within his body and a rising sexual thrall, along with amazement that he could have so forgot this as to hesitate in raising her from the tank.
I felt very weak, and in the weakness lost something of the amazement at what had occurred.
He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard, who was also observing the pretty girl.
We all looked on with horrified amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the woman, with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own, pass through the interstice where scarce a knife blade could have gone.
When we entered we saw with amazement that he had spread out his sugar as of old.
Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement read the name of Gabriel John Utterson.
And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his.
Then, as he stood with an expression of passive amazement on his face, the rapid feet came to the door of the dressing-room and that too was locked.
I heard a clashing concussion and was hit violently behind, and turning saw a man carrying a basket of soda-water syphons, and looking in amazement at his burden.
That time he actually touched me, jumped back with amazement and stood astonished in the middle of the room.