stupifaction

Kosnowski's grin was replaced by stupifaction, an expression which came naturally to him.

DBTL 12B: Białystok - Reel Two Johnny Pez 2009

Kosnowski's grin was replaced by stupifaction, an expression which came naturally to him.

Archive 2009-02-01 Johnny Pez 2009

The situation in which she found her was truly alarming, for the shock she had sustained seemed to have overwhelmed every superior faculty; she appeared the very statue of despair; she neither moved, spoke, nor wept; and that sensibility which was ever alive to the afflictions of others was smothered to stupifaction in her gentle bosom.

The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

But that it should so stupify, as to make a person, at times, insensible to those imaginary wrongs, which would raise others from stupifaction, is very surprising!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

I remember the Suzuki nature show where he had cattle on and the narration went something like “fed to stupifaction” with a close up of cattle in a feed lot.

Of Prions and People - The Panda's Thumb 2005

The Symptoms rose to a burning fever, a stupifaction and delirium ensued for 48 hours.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 18 August 1776 1963

If the fragments and remaynder of so sacred an antiquitie, and if the greet and dust of such a decayed monument, can breed a stupifaction in the admiration thereof, and cause so great delyght to behould the same, what would it haue done in chiefest pride.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

But that it should so stupify, as to make a person, at times, insensible to those imaginary wrongs, which would raise others from stupifaction, is very surprising!

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725

Also, the opie text editor is one of these stupifaction devices that will only open files * it* thinks it should open.

Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

And given the staggeringly large numbers of people who devote their existence to suppressing every last shred of their intelligence by sitting around in slack-jawed, gaping stupifaction, swallowing wholesale whatever infantile lie is shovelled down their gullets by the paid professional liars and hypocrites at places like Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully — and swallowing such drivel without even a first, much less a second thought — then exactly what REAL chance is there of a Constitutional Amendment (no matter how rational or necessary) ever even coming up for discussion?

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