thunderstricken

English

Etymology

From thunder +‎ stricken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθʌndəɹˌstɹɪkən/

Verb

thunderstricken

1. past participle of thunderstrike

Adjective

thunderstricken (comparative more thunderstricken, superlative most thunderstricken)

1. Thunderstruck.
   • 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 104,^[1]

     […] I sawe straight, Maiesty (sitting in the throne of Beautie) draw foorth such a sworde of iust disdaine, that I remayned as a man thunder-striken; not daring, no not able, to beholde that power.

   • 1831, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram, Complete‎^[2]:

     The Doctor was so thunderstricken, that he pocketed the money without uttering a word.

   • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 54, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 540:

     If some tremendous apparition from the world of shadows had suddenly presented itself before him, Ralph Nickleby could not have been more thunder-stricken than he was by this surprise.

   • 1851, anonymous author, The Book of Enterprise and Adventure‎^[3]:

     At the first shock, no token, in heaven or on earth, had excited attention; but at the sudden movement, and at the aspect of destruction, an overwhelming terror seized on the general mind, insomuch, that the instinct of self-preservation was suspended, and men remained thunderstricken and immoveable.

   • 1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales‎^[4]:

     The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment. "