surprisement en · NOUN
Etymology
From surprise + -ment.
Meanings
- (rare, uncountable) The act of surprising.
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(rare, uncountable) The state of being surprised; surprise.
I live up North, so you can understand my surprisement when we turned on simpsons^([sic]) to hear it in Spanish.
1999 December 30, Andrew Morin, “Weird thing happened in syndication today”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025:The sin tax of 1990 has just expired. The next day, you go to your local convenient store, hoping that your pack of cigarettes has dropped in cost from $2.20 to $2.12. To your surprisement, the price is the same.
1996 January 24, K Bear 4, “Browns Fans Are Freaks: Says a Maryland Poster”, in alt.sports.football.pro.cleve-browns (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025:I have tried taking the h files that i got with borland C++ on the cover of a mag,and putting them into the compiler, but it doesn't work... not to my surprisement, as nothing seems to be working at the mo. :o(
1998 October 28, Tom, “need h files...”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025: