flabbergastation

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flabbergastation

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From flabbergast + -ation.

noun

  1. colloquial, uncountable Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted. We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth.
  2. archaic, colloquial, humorous, uncountable The act of confounding or bewildering.

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