thunder-struck

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

THUN'DER-STRUCK, participle passive or adjective Astonished; amazed; struck dumb by something surprising or terrible suddenly presented to the mind or view. [This is a word in common use.]
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