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astounder

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astounder (複数形 astounders)

1. A person who astounds.
   • 1892, John James Aubertin, Wanderings and Wonderings, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, Chapter 2, p. 21,[1]
     […] while waiting for my interview at Government House, I had been dazzled by two most gorgeously-apparelled Rajahs, who went in before me; and as I heard that the Viceroy was to have a farewell garden party on Friday, the 7th of December, I was most anxious to see […] a crowd of these astounders.
   • 1922, James J. Davis, The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 42, p. 236,[2]
     I am an educator of the young, not an astounder of the old; and it is for the boys and girls who read my book that I thus point the morals that life’s tale has taught me.
   • 1970, Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau: A Biography, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 3, p. 88,[3]
     […] the insecurity that made Diaghilev’s command important to him permeated his achievement with the compulsion to astound and to associate himself with astounders.
2. A thing or occurrence that astounds.
   • 1876, May Agnes Fleming, A Mad Marriage, New York: G.W. Carleton, Chapter 5, p. 328,[4]
     “My dear France,” he says, holding both her hands, “this is an astounder. We knew you were coming, but not so soon. When did you arrive, and where are you located?”

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