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?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxxvii. f. 51^v Thynhabytantes seing this expelled their amasednes remembryng themself.

1548 Shorte Introd. Gram. (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. a.ii^v This postyng hast, ouerthroweth and hurteth a great sorte of wyttes, and casteth theim into an amasednesse, whan they knowe not howe they shall eyther go forwarde or backwarde.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. iv. 439/2 Through amazednesse not knowing how to shift.

1739 W. Dover Useful Misc. 31 When thou talkest with any, fix not thine Eye constantly on another Object, that betokens Amazedness.

1856 Jrnl. Psychol. Med. & Mental Pathol. 9 44 Nay, in this amazedness of spirit and disposition to despair, he is apt..to arm every sin as it comes into his mind with a particular sting.

1906 H. Quick Double Trouble iv. 28 Through this long day of shocks and surprises, he had reached that stage of amazedness where the evidential value of sensory impressions is destroyed.

2001 Hist. Workshop Jrnl. Spring 42 Naming her disorder as amazedness, by placing herself as one lost in a labyrinth.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1311/1 A sudden earthquake..caused such an amazednesse among the people as was woonderfull for the time.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. iv. 55 Vpon their sight We two, in great amazednesse will flye. View more context for this quotation

1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 15 By reason of his trembling and fearful amazednesse.

1593 J. Udall Comm. Lament. Ieremy i. 2 It gaue such cause of amazednesse and astonishment, that the Prophet beginneth and proceedeth his speech in such manner as followeth.

1607 S. Hieron Spirituall Sonne-ship in Wks. (1620) I. 349 We may well with a kind of astonishment and amazednesse admire it.

1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 32 With a constant boldness, a fixt amazedness, and a resolved silence, he performs his Plot.

1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. xii. 191 Before their amazedness ceased, they found themselves unaccountably marshalled and governed.

1918 H. Hall Man Nobody Knew (1919) xvii. 232 His lips were parted in amazedness, his eyes roved dully.

2010 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 17 Dec. 6 Apart from my amazedness that I'm getting to do this, the other part of me is thinking this is definitely what I should be doing now.