Amaze vs Amae - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between amaze and amae

is that amaze is while amae is childlike behaviour aimed at inducing another (such as a parent, spouse, teacher or boss) to take care of one.

is (obsolete) to stupefy; to knock unconscious.

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(obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.

(obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

* Shakespeare

a labyrinth to amaze his foes

(obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.

*, New York Review Books 2001, p.261:

[Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […].

To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.

He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.

* Bible, Matthew xii. 23

And all the people were amazed , and said, Is not this the son of David?

* Goldsmith

Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.

To undergo amazement; to be astounded.

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* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.ii:

All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].

* 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 103:

Shattuck looked at him in amaze .

* 1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), Quinx'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1361:

She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze , dazed by her own behaviour.

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Childlike behaviour aimed at inducing another (such as a parent, spouse, teacher or boss) to take care of one.

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