"ponderment" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1773, John Byrom, “A Full and True Account, Of an Horrid and Barbarous Robbery, Committed on Epping Forest, Upon the Body of the Cambridge Coach”, in Miscellaneous Poems, volume I, Manchester, page 14",
          "text": "Now, while in deep and serious Ponderment\nI watch’d the Motions of his next Intent,\nHe wheel’d about, as one full bent to try\nThe Matter in Dispute ’twixt him and I;",
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          "text": "My bewildered mind was deep in ponderment, and the distant croaking of ravens blended in evil litany with my thoughts.",
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        "A mental state characterized by pondering; a feeling of doubt and curiosity."
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