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astoundment|əˈstaʊndmənt| [f. astound v. + -ment.] The condition of being stricken with amazement; profound astonishment.
1810Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 260 In wonder, says Aristotle, does philosophy begin: and in astoundment, says Plato, does all true philosophy finish. 1823Lamb Elia xviii. 93/1 The fountains..which I have made..to the astoundment of the young urchins my contemporaries. |