astoundment

English

Etymology

astound +‎ -ment

Noun

astoundment (uncountable)

  1. amazement
    • 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Omniana:
      With what astoundment would ye, if ye were alive with your merely human perfections, listen to the creed of our, so called, rational religionists!
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