wondrous
[wuhn-druh s]
- wonderful; remarkable.
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- Archaic. wonderfully; remarkably.
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Origin of wondrous
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Historical Examples
The scene of that service must have been wondrously beautiful and impressive.
The Little Manx Nation - 1891Hall Caine
Only one street from here my ogre materialized again, or some one wondrously like him.
The BondwomanMarah Ellis Ryan
He had eyes only for the girl; who was so wondrously, so completely, like his wife.
In Kings' BywaysStanley J. Weyman
It was wondrously fine, finer than anything Andy had done until then.
As they show against the sky, they are wondrously elegant and graceful.
The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5Theophile Gautier
wondrous
- exciting wonder; marvellous
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- (intensifier)it is wondrous cold
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Word Origin and History for wondrously
wondrous
adj.
c.1500, from Middle English wonders (adj.), c.1300, originally genitive of wonder (n.), with suffix altered by influence of marvelous, etc.
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