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Wondrous
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange. That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. Ps. xxvi. 7. -- Won"drous*ly, adv. -- Won"drous*ness, n. Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved. Granville.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully. For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. Pope. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold. Coleridge.