stupefaction

• The Pope regarded it with stupefaction, and exclaimed: From this moment forward I will believe everything you say. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• To his stupefaction, the jailor had watched him remove a corset, as he was undressing, worn by certain officers in the past. —  The 13 Culprits - Georges Simenon - 1929
• There he remains in a state of stupefaction, and finds his way no more To make the meaning of "Amazement" clearer, Attar gives the following allegory. —  Mystics and Saints of Islam
• Through the pallid stupefaction, the sullen silence, the awful gloom, the black despair that were settling over Chicago's heart, it pierced, and from all the world it came: "We have heard thy cry, O our sister! —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
• The ease which men covet is so often a fruit of stupefaction, the dull product of sinful drugs, the wretched sluggishness of carnal gratification and excess. —  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year

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