Wonderment
['wʌndəm(ə)nt] or ['wʌndɚmənt]
Definition
(n.) Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.
Editor: Lyle
Examples
- Mrs. Sowerberry looked up with an expression of considerable wonderment. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The magnificent diamond locket which hung about Tarzan's neck, had been a source of much wonderment to Jane. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- As for Rosamond, she was in the water-lily's expanding wonderment at its own fuller life, and she too was spinning industriously at the mutual web. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You are in a world of mystery here, and will see many things on Melnos which will excite your wonderment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We had just finished the last of our immediate antagonists as he spoke, and I turned in surprised wonderment at the sound of my name. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Edited by Julius