Meaning of wonder-striking | Babel Free

Definitions

Inspiring wonder or awe.

Examples

“[…] hath not the Lord used that other more terrible and heart-frighting course […] of Prodigies, Signes and Apparitions in the ayre, and other most degenerating, unnaturall and wonder-striking contingents amongst us here at home?”

“[…] by revealing to us the wonder-striking order of the infinite stars […] Night leads us to dream, or to infer, that there may be other pages still unturned in the book of Nature’s mysteries,”

“The sensation of having the mysterious girl at his elbow in that wonder-striking interior was magnificent.”

“We have seen wonder-striking robes and dresses, Women whose nails and teeth the betel stains And jugglers whom the rearing snake caresses.”

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