different between veneration vs amazement

English

From Middle French vénération, from Old French veneracion, from Latin veneratio.

veneration (countable and uncountable, plural venerations)

The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
Profound reverence, respect or awe.
- 1848, w:William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Evans, page 2:
  In Miss Jemima's eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign.
Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.

amaze +? -ment

amazement (countable and uncountable, plural amazements)

(uncountable) The condition of being amazed; a state of overwhelming wonder, as from surprise or sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
(countable, archaic) A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
- 1682, Samuel Willard, The fiery tryal no strange thing, Samuel Sewell, Boston, p. 16,
  Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them.
- 1791, "Character of the faithful Man," in Aphorisms concerning the Assurance of Faith, W. Young, Philadelphia, p. 60,
  In the midst of ill rumours and amazements, his countenance changeth not.
(countable, dated) Something which amazes.
- 1918, Christopher Morley, "The Urchin at the Zoo," in Mince Pie,
  I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
(obsolete) Madness, frenzy.

Webster, Noah (1828) , “amazement”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
amazement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
“amazement” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
"amazement" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
"amazement" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

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