Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STU-PE-FAC'TION, n. [L. stupefacio; stupeo, whence stupidus, and facio. See Stop.]

1. The act of rendering stupid.
2. A stupid or senseless state; insensibility; dullness; torpor; stupidity. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. – South.