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UK
/wˈʌndəmənt/
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[ US /ˈwəndɝmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈwəndɝmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
How To Use wonderment In A Sentence
- At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.
- Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
- The sense of sunny awe and wonderment is not as evident, but the lyrics have more depth this time around.
- We gazed in wonderment at the fantastic shape of the small island of Tindholmur as we passed.
- The sobs were reduced to sniffles, and in silent wonderment, they looked at each other, together at last.
- Now when I saw this, O my lady, for very wonderment my senses left me and my wits went wild and heart and head were full of thought, till I forgot what had betided me and I could not keep silence feeling I fain must speak out and question them of these strangenesses; so I said to them, How come ye to do this after we have been so open hearted and frolicksome? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Only Russell Lee conveys a sense of joy and wonderment in his photographs.
- The secret Weapon spends hours in The Dungeon, where there is a printing press, a dark room, a painting studio, a wood shop, an area for goldsmithing and electronics... it is an endless maze of wonderment. Archive 2006-08-01
- Now when I saw this, O my lady, for very wonderment my senses left me and my wits went wild and heart and head were full of thought, till I forgot what had betided me and I could not keep silence feeling I fain must speak out and question them of these strangenesses; so I said to them, How come ye to do this after we have been so open hearted and frolicksome? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The inmates were in wonderment and consternation, and, conduplicated evil! they could make no inquiry for one who lay under the ban of a bloody proscription. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII