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Amazement vs Stound - What's the difference?

amazement | stound |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between amazement and stound

is that amazement is (obsolete) madness, frenzy while stound is (obsolete) to stand still; stop.

As nouns the difference between amazement and stound

is that amazement is (uncountable) the condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment while stound is (chronology|obsolete) an hour or stound can be a stand; a stop or stound can be a receptacle for holding small beer.

As a verb stound is

(obsolete|or|dialectal|intransitive) to hurt, pain, smart or stound can be (obsolete) to stand still; stop.

amazement

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=9 citation , passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement . When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
  • (countable, archaic) A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
  • * 1682 , , The fiery tryal no strange thing , Samuel Sewell, Boston, p. 16,
    • Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them.
  • * 1791 , "Character of the faithful Man," in Aphorisms concerning the Assurance of Faith , W. Young, Philadelphia, p. 60,
    • In the midst of ill rumours and amazements , his countenance changeth not.
  • * 1853 , , Villette , ch. 41,
    • Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs and amazements , when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling.
  • (countable, dated) Something which amazes.
  • * 1913 , , The Valley of the Moon , ch. 21,
    • So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers.
  • * 1918 , , "The Urchin at the Zoo," in Mince Pie ,
    • I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
  • (obsolete) Madness, frenzy.

    • References

    * * * * * " amazement" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " amazement" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

    stound

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) stond, stounde, . Related to (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (s)
  • (chronology, obsolete) An hour.
  • * 1765 , Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):
    • What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound
  • (obsolete) A tide, season.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
  • * 1801 , Walter Scott, The Talisman :
    • He lay and slept, and swet a stound , / And became whole and sound.
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
    • Listen to me a little stound .
    (Chaucer)
  • A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
  • (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
  • * 1857 , Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture :
    • No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage''
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].
  • A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
  • * 1895 , Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith :
    • [...] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!
  • astonishment; amazement
    • (Spenser)
    (Gay)
    Derived terms
    * ill stound * in a stound * stoundmeal * umbestound * umstound * upon a stound

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95
    • Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless
    Retraction follow close upon the heels
    Of that late stounding insult […]
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
  • * 1823 , Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county :
    • Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stand still; stop.
  • To stop to listen; pause.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stand; a stop.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from (etyl) . Compare stand .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A receptacle for holding small beer.

    • Anagrams

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