Meaning of wonderstruck | Babel Free

Definitions

Filled or overcome with wonder.

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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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