ponderment en · NOUN
Etymology
From ponder + -ment.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A mental state characterized by pondering; a feeling of doubt and curiosity.
My bewildered mind was deep in ponderment, and the distant croaking of ravens blended in evil litany with my thoughts.
1937 April, Robert Bloch, “The Mannikin”, in Weird Tales, volume 29, number 4, page 450:Now, while in deep and serious Ponderment I watch’d the Motions of his next Intent, He wheel’d about, as one full bent to try The Matter in Dispute ’twixt him and I;
1773, John Byrom, “A Full and True Account, Of an Horrid and Barbarous Robbery, Committed on Epping Forest, Upon the Body of the Cambridge Coach”, in Miscellaneous Poems, volume I, Manchester, page 14:Dutifully and in a haze of ponderment I followed.
1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 26, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 174: