wonderment

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

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.

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