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ˈwonderfulness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being wonderful.
†1. The state of being filled with wonder. Obs. rare.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. ii. (Skeat) l. 14 Angels ben adradde, not by ferdnes of drede,..[but] as [by] affeccion of wonderfulnesse and by service of obedience.
2. Wonderful character, marvellousness.
1574tr. Marlorat's Apoc. 3 He called the Wyze men by a strange starre,..the Gentiles by the wonderfulnesse of Miracles. 1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fortune i. xxx. 41 What by the wonderfulnesse and number of the woorkes, there was nothyng in all the whole world to be wondred at, but Rome. 1652French Yorksh. Spaw iii. 32 The wonderfulnes of the waters that I shall mention, consists..in the strangeness of their colours, tasts, [etc.]. 1674Allen Danger Enthus. 100 The wonderfulness of his Birth of a Virgin. 1714Derham Astro-Theol. iv. ii. (1769) 101 The wonderfulness of the things of the heavens or the earth. 1870Max Müller Sci. Relig. (1873) 27 The Buddhist..miracles, which in wonderfulness certainly surpass the miracles of any other religion. 1892Henley Song of Sword, Lond. Voluntaries i. 39 Dispossessed of wonderfulness, they stand Beggared and common. 1908Athenæum 22 Aug. 205/1 A knowledge of the wonderfulness of life. |