dumbfoundment
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English
Etymology
Noun
dumbfoundment (uncountable)
- The fact of being dumbfounded or bewildered; astonishment.
- Synonyms: dumbfounderment, dumbfoundedness
- 1997, Lady Anne Somerset, Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James I, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 282:
- At any rate, Elwes's reaction when he heard his own words was one of complete dumbfoundment. He stood 'stricken as if with a thunderbolt'.
References
- “dumbfoundment, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
