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amazedness|əˈmeɪzɪdnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being amazed; literally, loss of one's wits or of self-possession from any cause.
†1. The state of being out of one's wits; infatuation, stupefaction. Obs.
1576T. Newton tr. Lemnie's Touchst. Complex. (1633) 112 Of it springeth madnesse, losse of right wits, amazednesse, raving dotage. 1581Gosson Playes Confut. (1869) 202 Glutte..with the clubbe of amasednesse strikes such a pegge into the heade of Life, that he falles downe for dead vpon the Stage.
†2. Loss of presence of mind, bewilderment, confusion. Obs.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. iv. (1632) 475 Through amazednesse not knowing how to shift. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia v. 174 Extreme ioy, euen almost to amazednesse. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Amble, Checking him in the cheeks when in a gallop; and thus putting him into an amazedness, between gallop and trot.
†3. Loss of self-possession through fear; consternation, panic. Obs.
1557Barclay Jugurtha (Paynell) 63 b, Thinhabitantes expelled their amasednes remembryng themselfe. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 311/1 A sudden earthquake..caused such an amazednesse among the people as was woonderfull for the time. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. iv. 55 Vpon their sight We two, in great amazednesse will flye. 1641Prynne Antipathie 15 By reason of his trembling and fearful amazednesse.
4. Overwhelming astonishment.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 349 We may well with a kind of astonishment and amazednesse admire it. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1877) II. xxiii. 357 Before their amazedness ceased, they found themselves—marshalled and governed. |