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Wondrous

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:27:01

Won"drous (?), adv. [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.). See Wonder, n., and cf. -wards.]

In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.

For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. Pope.

And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold. Coleridge.

 

© Webster 1913.


Won"drous, a.

Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.

That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. Ps. xxvi. 7.

-- Won"drous*ly, adv. -- Won"drous*ness, n.

Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved. Granville.

 

© Webster 1913.


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