consternation

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Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then upon Hilversea and its surroundings and dependents fell another bolt—swift, sudden, consternating.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

So the chance to put his serviceability to the proof in consternating circumstances like these, afforded her a subtle satisfaction.

From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell

Margaret Jones manifested startling efficacy of hands and medicines, consternating keenness of perceptives, predictions subsequently verified, and the presence of a vanishing child.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen