Meanings
- proscribedrareuncountableThe act of being surprised.
He was speaking of Christ's conversion with Nicodemus and remarked that many things Nicodemus heard that evening, "must have been a great surprisation to him!” which was undoubtedly the case.
2008, William Wye Smith, Scott Alan McLean, Michael Easton Vance, William Wye Smith: Recollections of a Nineteenth Century Scottish Canadian, →ISBN2 more examples
Five of the men, all whites, rushed into the apartment, with loaded drawn guns, pointing in different directions, intent on preemptive shooting to surprisation of the presumed intruders, as they entered.
2010, Sunday Ahuronyeze Abakwue, The Devil's Land, →ISBNEhn? Jegede on Friday, I was vex vex to be took shovel to broke him head: but to my greatest surprisation, ikpem! On his head, and the hand wood of the shovel was broke and the razor blade of it was cut my leg.
2016, Ozo-mekuri Ndimele, Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages: A Festschrift for Munzali A. Jibril, →ISBN
Origin
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