mazement

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

maze +‎ -ment

Noun[edit]

mazement (countable and uncountable, plural mazements)

  1. (obsolete) A trancelike state; amazement.
    • c. 1611, John Fletcher, The Night Walker, or The Little Thief:
      Plesse us awle, why does that sentilman make such unders and mazements at her, I know her not.

References[edit]

  • OED 2001
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