Meaning of surprisement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of surprising.
   rare, uncountable
2. The state of being surprised; surprise.
   rare, uncountable

Examples

“The sin tax of 1990 has just expired. The next day, you go to your local convenient store, hoping that your pack of cigarettes has dropped in cost from $2.20 to $2.12. To your surprisement, the price is the same.”

“I have tried taking the h files that i got with borland C++ on the cover of a mag,and putting them into the compiler, but it doesn't work... not to my surprisement, as nothing seems to be working at the mo. :o(”

“I live up North, so you can understand my surprisement when we turned on simpsons^([sic]) to hear it in Spanish.”

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