From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Wondrous \Won"drous\, adv. [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.).
See {Wonder}, n., and cf. {-wards}.]
In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
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For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race,
Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. --Pope.
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And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold. --Coleridge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Wondrous \Won"drous\, a.
Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite
surprise and astonishment; strange.
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That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. --Ps.
xxvi. 7.
[1913 Webster] -- {Won"drous*ly}, adv. -- {Won"drous*ness},
n.
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Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved.
--Granville.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wondrous
adv 1: (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is
superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously
slowly" [syn: {wonderfully}, {wondrous}, {wondrously},
{superbly}, {toppingly}, {marvellously}, {terrifically},
{marvelously}]
adj 1: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as
intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film
was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous
collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation
about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn:
{fantastic}, {grand}, {howling(a)}, {marvelous},
{marvellous}, {rattling(a)}, {terrific}, {tremendous},
{wonderful}, {wondrous}]
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