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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