| 单词 | to make a wonderment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a wonderment b. An expression of wonder: chiefly in to make a wonderment, to express wonder. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun] > an expression of wonder wonderment1553 miration1883 1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obed. 54 b Her parentes..would make suche a lyke wonderment, as these men seme to vse against me. a1565 R. Turner in J. Marbecke Bk. of Notes (1581) 243 A great outcrie & wonderment was made against the Deacons & Priests of Constantinople. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth ii. 2 Much talke there was..of the murther of the Regent, many making a wonderment at vaine things, as his mothers dreame. 1681 R. L'Estrange tr. Cicero Offices (ed. 2) 110 What a wonderment is made of it. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. xii. 71 Why, Jack, thou needest not make such a wonderment, as the girls say. 1838 Bentley's Misc. 3 331 After the usual wonderments, and mutual applauses of our marvellous good looks. 1840 F. Trollope Widow Married III. xxiv. 52 What wonderments you do make about nothing. < as lemmas |
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