planet-stricken

English

Adjective

planet-stricken (comparative more planet-stricken, superlative most planet-stricken)

Synonym of planet-struck
- 1798 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Part Third”, in Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse, London: […] Strahan and Spottiswoode, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 66:
  Like planet-stricken men of yore / He trembles, smitten to the core / By strong compunction and remorse.

References

“planet-stricken”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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