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stupefaction
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See also: stupéfaction
English
Etymology
From Middle French stupéfaction, from Latin stupefaciō (“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”), from stupeō (“I am stunned, speechless”) (English stupid, stupor) + faciō (“do, make”).
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Noun
stupefaction (countable and uncountable, plural stupefactions)
- The state of extreme shock or astonishment.
- A state of insensibility; stupor.
- 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 145:
- Suddenly roused from the state of stupefaction to which fear had reduced her, the female filled the air with shrieks. Disengaging herself from the officers, and rushing towards her husband, she clung with all her strength to his arm, imploring him, with frantic violence, not to let them kill her.
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Translations
the state of dismay; shock
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