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† ˈwonders, a. and adv. Obs.
Also 6 Sc. wounderis.
[gen. of wonder n.; a Scand. idiom: cf. MSw. unders, gen. of under wonder n. in unders miraculum, teken, thing marvel, miracle, prodigy. Cf. lives alive (life n. 15). See also wondrous.]
A. adj. = wondrous a.
a1300Cursor M. 1529 Þaa þat þa wonders [Gött. wonþer] werkes wroght..Tua pilers þa mad. a1500Sir Beues 1469 (Chetham MS.) A wonders thinge [13.. MS. A. wonder-þing] ye may here. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxvi. (1555) z ij b, It was a wonders case. c15111st Engl. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 29/1 Many dyuers maner and wonders bestes. c1520Skelton Magnyf. 89 A, ye be wonders men! c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. xxxv. (1814) 111 Whan the duke sawe these thre knyghtes do suche wonders meruayles in armes..he was..dyspleased. 1602W. Basse Three Past. Elegies i. (1893) 44 An Iuory boxe of wonders cost.
B. adv. = wondrous adv.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. iii. (Skeat) l. 45 Ye..let light of that thing whiche firste ye maked to you wonders dere. c1395Plowman's Tale 699 in Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 324 These folkes be wonders stout. c1520Everyman 7 This matter is wonders precyous. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia ii. (1895) 220 Hym they receyue and interteyne wonders gentyllye. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 207 In danger of deith,..Do weill is harnessit, and wounderis bauld. a1600Dialogue in Verse in Marlowe's Wks. 1850 III. 304 But a' dances wonders well.
Hence † ˈwondersly adv. wondrously.
1489Skelton Dethe Erle Northumb. 193 Operlese Prince..! Which to thy resemblaunce wondersly hast wrought All mankynd. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. xiv. 5 Be ye sure it doth wondersly well. |