Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being dazed, stunned, or confused.
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- noun The state or quality of being
dazed .
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Examples
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And I very speedy to come free of the dazedness that had me, and made again to my running; for, in truth, it to seem now that I should yet be let to win unto safety with Mine Own.
The Night Land 2007
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Pagan stood her on the rug beside the bed and she smiled with the sweet dazedness of a girl drunk on the wine of love.
A Girl Possessed Winspear, Violet 1980
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Gradually the dazedness of sleep faded away and she became aware of a rather heavy weight across her legs.
A Girl Possessed Winspear, Violet 1980
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Never knowing, in my dazedness, I had slipped my hand from His --
Sermons on Biblical Characters Clovis G. Chappell
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"I-- fainted -- silly of me," she said with a consummate dazedness.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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He seldom went out of his room, and often left untouched the meals they brought to him there; and this neglect caused them to shake their heads mournfully, again mistaking for dazedness the profound concentration of his mind.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918
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Meanwhile, the life of the little bereft group still forlornly centring upon him began to pick up again, as life will, and to emerge from its own period of dazedness.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918
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Meanwhile, the life of the little bereft group still forlornly centring upon him began to pick up again, as life will, and to emerge from its own period of dazedness.
Chapter 30 1918
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He seldom went out of his room, and often left untouched the meals they brought to him there; and this neglect caused them to shake their heads mournfully, again mistaking for dazedness the profound concentration of his mind.
Chapter 30 1918
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And I very speedy to come free of the dazedness that had me, and made again to my running; for, in truth, it to seem now that I should yet be let to win unto safety with Mine Own.
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