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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