Meaning of wonderstruck | Babel Free

Definitions

Filled or overcome with wonder.

Equivalents

Examples

“1611, Thomas Middleton, No Wit, No Help⟳ Like⟳ a Woman’s, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1657, Act II, Scene 1, p. 50, I am so wonder-struck at your blest presence, That through amaz’d Joy, I neglect⟳ my duty!”

“Great and astonishing as this difference is, we ought not to be so wonder-struck at it, as to attribute it to the miraculous interposition of heaven.”

“Soft shall we live⟳, my love⟳, and easy shall we go. Crowned shall we be with the diadem of Kings. Worshipping and wonder⟳ struck all peoples of the world, Blinded shall fall⟳ before our beauty and might.”

“When the morning [running] practice was over the trainer would make⟳ his comments and sometimes illustrate⟳ them by shuffling along for a yard or so comically in an old pair of blue canvas shoes. A small ring⟳ of wonderstruck children and nursemaids would gather to watch⟳ him […]”

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