单词 | consternation |
释义 | consternationn. Amazement and terror such as to prostrate one's faculties; dismay. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun] > mingled with terror consternation1611 the mind > emotion > fear > dismay > [noun] > consternation enbaissingc1374 astonying1580 daunting1581 amazedness1587 amazement1590 astonishment1593 consternation1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Consternation, astonishment, dismay. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 298 It is a question of consternation, a question that should strike him, that should answer it, dumb. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 33 The effects of this overthrow..produced..a general Consternation over the face of the whole Nation. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 303 Such was the public consternation, when the barbarians were hourly expected at the gates of Rome. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. ix. 345 They regarded the reforming measures of the parliament with dismay and consternation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1611 |
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