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  1. n. The state of being dazed, stunned, or confused.

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  1. n. The state or quality of being dazed.

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  • “Gradually the dazedness of sleep faded away and she became aware of a rather heavy weight across her legs.”

    A Girl Possessed

  • “Pagan stood her on the rug beside the bed and she smiled with the sweet dazedness of a girl drunk on the wine of love.”

    A Girl Possessed

  • “Never knowing, in my dazedness, I had slipped my hand from His --”

    Sermons on Biblical Characters

  • “I-- fainted -- silly of me," she said with a consummate dazedness.”

    Young People's Pride

  • “He seldom went out of his room, and often left untouched the meals they brought to him there; and this neglect caused them to shake their heads mournfully, again mistaking for dazedness the profound concentration of his mind.”

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown

  • “Meanwhile, the life of the little bereft group still forlornly centring upon him began to pick up again, as life will, and to emerge from its own period of dazedness.”

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown

  • “And I very speedy to come free of the dazedness that had me, and made again to my running; for, in truth, it to seem now that I should yet be let to win unto safety with Mine Own.”

    The Night Land: Chapter 16

  • “Meanwhile, the life of the little bereft group still forlornly centering upon him began to pick up again, as life will, and to emerge from its own period of dazedness.”

    The Magnificent Ambersons

  • “The words had the calm conventional cadence, and instantly extorted from him -- amid all his dazedness -- the corresponding "Good-by.”

    The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes

  • “My country dazedness led me astray once or twice, but I found the place, retreated into the farthest corner, sat down, and ordered supper.”

    Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic

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