Meaning of Amaze | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Amazement, astonishment; (countable) an instance of this.
   archaic, uncountable
2. Fear, terror.
   archaic, uncountable
3. Stupefaction of the mind; bewilderment; (countable) an instance of this.
   obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“All in amaze he ſuddenly vp ſtart / VVith ſvvord in hand, and vvith the old man vvent; […]”

“His faces ovvn margent did coate ſuch amazes, / That all eyes ſavv his eyes inchaunted vvith gazes.”

“VVhy, I am all in Amaze: I muſt ſit dovvn.”

“Presently, however, as we stood in amaze, gazing at the marvellous sight, and wondering whence the rosy radiance flowed, a dread and beautiful thing happened.”

“Shattuck looked at him in amaze. "Why, of course and welcome. What do you mean?" His tone was surprised and wounded, but pacific.”

“While the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men but few. Who bore the fight that freedom's light might shine through the foggy dew.”

“She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.”

“[T]he whole rout was in amaze; his Lordſhip turned all manner of colours, my Lady fell into a ſwoon; […]”

“He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar.”

“[T]he panicles or thin skins [of a horse] vvhich cleauing to the bones, doe couer the vvhole braine, are ſubiect to headache, mygram [migrane], dizineſſe, and amazes; […]”

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