Meaning of surprisement | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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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