Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of confounding or covering with confusion; the state of being flabbergasted or bewildered.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Jocular The state of being flabbergasted.
Etymologies
- flabbergast + -ation (Wiktionary)
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“Then, just as the media flabbergastation was dying down in the midst of a three-anchor (plus Anderson Cooper) commitment to Hurricane Gustav and Labor Day lassitude, it flared anew with the revelation that Palin's 17-year-old unmarried daughter, Bristol, was pregnant.”
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“I had much more pleasant things to say, but after seeing Ed Bradley's report on "60 Minutes" (see the wrap-up here), I am in a state of flabbergastation.”
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