What does "astonishment" mean?
Astonishment: Dismay; consternation. [Archaic] Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.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. Milton.
- 3.The object causing such an emotion. Thou shalt become an astonishment. Deut. xxviii.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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