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English
Etymology
From stage + stricken.
Adjective
stage-stricken (comparative more stage-stricken, superlative most stage-stricken)
- (theater, rare) Synonym of stagestruck
1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Mr. Mervyn in His Inn”, in The House by the Church-yard. , volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, , →OCLC, page 36:[T]hey entertained themselves […] with a recitation by plump little stage-stricken Ensign Puddock, who, in "thpite of hith lithp," gave rather spirited imitations of some of the players—[…]