dumbfoundment

noun

dumbfoundment

noun

Etymology From dumbfound + -ment.

1

The fact of being dumbfounded or bewildered; astonishment.

  • At any rate, Elwes's reaction when he heard his own words was one of complete dumbfoundment. He stood 'stricken as if with a thunderbolt'.1997, Lady Anne Somerset, Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James I, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 282:

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