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wonderment Chiefly literary.|ˈwʌndəmənt|
[f. wonder v. + -ment.]
1. The or a state of wonder; = wonder n. 7.
1535in Lett. Suppr. Monast. (Camden) 78 After most shamefull rumors raysed uppe to theyre dyffamacion, with slaunderouse wonderment of the towne. 1569Golding tr. Heminge's Postill 30 Wee must with holy wonderment embrace the heauenly Oracles. 1571― Calvin on Ps. viii. Contents, Dauid bethinking himself of Gods fatherly bountifulnesse towards mankinde..is rauished into a wonderment of it. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 9 Whom all admired, as from heauen sent, And gazd vpon with gaping wonderment. 1688Bunyan Sol. Temple xxii. 52 That which added to their adornment, was the wonderment of a Queen. 1787F. Burney Diary 19 Feb., The wonderment with which they heard a proposal so new was diverting. 1799Coleridge ‘Nor cold, nor stern, my soul!’ 8 They gape for wonderment. 1815Wordsw. Prose Wks. (1876) II. 119 Much of what his biographer deemed genuine admiration must in fact have been blind wonderment. 1879Lewes Study Psychol. viii. 155 The mind passes from wonderment at the miraculous to the discernment of order.
b. An expression of wonder: chiefly in to make a wonderment, to express wonder.
1553M. Wood tr. Gardiner's True Obed. 54 b, Her parentes..would make suche a lyke wonderment, as these men seme to vse against me. a1565R. Turner in Marbeck Bk. Notes (1581) 243 A great outcrie & wonderment was made against the Deacons & Priests of Constantinople. 1630tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. ii. 2 (an. 1570) Much talke there was..of the murther of the Regent, many making a wonderment at vaine things, as his mothers dreame. 1681R. L'Estrange Tully's Offices 110 What a wonderment is made of it. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) III. 71 Why, Jack, thou needest not make such a wonderment, as the girls say. 1838Bentley's Misc. III. 331 After the usual wonderments, and mutual applauses of our marvellous good looks. 1840Mrs. Trollope Widow Married xxiv, What wonderments you do make about nothing.
2. An object of or a matter for wonder; a wonderful thing; = wonder n. 1–4.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 70 b, The games called Dionysiaca,..he called the greate woondrementes & gazynges of fooles. 1563Foxe A. & M. 50/2 This obstinate and stoburn rebellion of tharchbishop stirred vp much anger.., that almost he was alone a wonderment to al the realme. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 213 marg., Sir Hugh Spencer the yonger lead about for wonderment, lyke a beast. 1584Constable Diana vii. i, A flouring fielde, the world's sole wonderment. 1591Spenser Ruins of Rome 28 Seuen Romane Hils, the worlds 7. wonderments. 1618Rowlands Sacred Mem. 8 Therefore in Heathens Images he spake, Wrought wonderments, and wrought them so from grace. 1628Prynne Love-lockes 33 They turne themselues into..so many Monsters, and wonderments of the World. 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xxxv. 1 Deliverances, commonly, are but nine days wonderment, at utmost. 1757Foote Author Prol., 'Tis Wonderment, them Boobies ben't asham'd. 1841J. F. Cooper Deerslayer xv, It's a wonderment to me..how you got us off. 1859Reeve Brittany 87 A shop with all sorts of household wonderments exposed for sale. 1915H. James Sense of Past (1917) 150 To determine wonderments that should be beyond answering.
b. A wonderful example or instance (of something): = wonder n. 1 d.
1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine v. 25 But vpon Alcibiades they threw down a wonderment of welcoms. 1607Beaum. & Fl. Woman Hater iv. i, How many..have dedicated grave Works to Ladies, toothless, [etc.], and have call'd them..the patterns of perfection, and the wonderment of Women. 1917Blackw. Mag. Aug. 253 The untended orchards are arrayed in a wonderment of blossom.
3. Wonderful quality: = wonder n. 1 b.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. v. 20 That strange Dame, whose beauties wonderment She lesse esteem'd, then th' others vertuous gouernment. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iii. xxxii, How should I..limme forth her vertues wonderment? 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxxi. 313 That King will be looked upon as a King of wonderment. 1801T. S. Surr Splendid Misery III. 251 As a climax of wonderment, the Jacobin Winterton has succeeded with Lady Amelia. 1871Smiles Charac. ii. (1876) 33 The child..opens his eyes upon things all of which are full of novelty and wonderment. |