Origin of amazement?

  "Be collected; No more amazement; tell your piteous heart that there is no harm done."  Prospero to MirandaThe Tempest (1.3)

The verb to amaze had been in circulation since the mid 1500s. Shakespeare converts this existing verb into a new noun: amazement.

The technical term for this process is a functional shift or nominalization.

Earliest OED citation1553