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wondrously, adv. literary.|ˈwʌndrəslɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a wondrous manner; to a wonderful degree; wonderfully, marvellously.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxi. 12 Thane thocht I thus, this is ane felloun phary, Or ellis my witt rycht woundrouslie dois varie. 1535Coverdale Wisd. xvii. 3 They were..put to horrible feare & wonderously vexed. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxiv. xiv, Thou wondrously didst cause..From thirsty flynt a fountayne flow. 1607Shakes. Timon iii. iv. 71 My Lord leanes wondrously to discontent. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 587 So wondrously was set his Station bright. 1807W. Irving Salmag. No. 17 (1824) 319 So wonderously adroit in pedestrian exercises. 1905Treves Other Side Lantern ii. ix. (1906) 83 The walls of the main building are wondrously carved. So ˈwondrousness.
1851Nichol Archit. Heav. 240 Because of the very wondrousness of this universe. |