Astonishment; amazement. Wonderful appearance. Not in use except in low or sarcastic language.--Johnson. Examples of the use of this word may he found in many of the old authors.
When my pen would write her titles true,
It ravish'd is with fancy's wonderment.--Spenser.
Those things which I here set down, do naturally take the sense, and not respect petty wonderments.--Bacon.
The neighbors made a wonderment of it, and asked him what he meant.--L'Estrange.
All was wonderment and curiosity, and Jim for once experienced the inadequacy of the human capacity for such extraordinary occasions.--Chronicles of Pineville, p. 12.