“consternation”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

consternation

释义

consternation|kɒnstəˈneɪʃən|
[a. F. consternation or ad. L. consternātiōn-em, n. of action or state f. consternāre: see prec.]
Amazement and terror such as to prostrate one's faculties; dismay.
1611Cotgr., Consternation, astonishment, dismay.1626Donne Serm. iv. 38 It is a question of consternation, a question that should strike him that should answer it dumb.1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. (1843) 17/1 The effects of this overthrow..produced..a general consternation over the face of the whole nation.1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. 303 Such was the public consternation, when the barbarians were hourly expected at the gates of Rome.1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. ix. 345 They regarded the reforming measures of the parliament with dismay and consternation.

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