flabbergastation

flabbergastation
a) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.

We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobdens Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth.

b) The act of confounding or bewildering.

Upon a sign, she takes ahold of two cords of black silk, to which were attached loops, through which she passes her arms, and in the twinkling of an eye is translated by two pulleys from her bed through the ceiling into the room above, and the trap closing as it has opened, left the old duenna in a state of great flabbergastation, when, turning her head, she neither saw robe nor woman, and perceived that the women had been robbed.


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  • Flabbergastation — Flab ber*gas*ta tion (fl[a^]b b[ e]r*g[a^]s*t[=a] sh[u^]n), n. The state of being flabbergasted. [Jocular] London Punch. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • flabergastation — noun Alternate form of flabbergastation …   Wiktionary

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