wonderlingn.
rare.
A wonderful being.There is no evidence of continuity of use between the examples given here.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > wonderful person
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prodigya1684
phenomenon1839
caution1870
astonisher1871
mazer1876
phenom1881
knock-out1892
superman1925
Wunderkind1930
whiz-kid1960
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 190 This made Job such a wonderling to his wife.
1913 A. O'Connor Poems 8 Sweet wonderlings Of passing fancy, slight, too slight for birth, Yet dazzlingly alive with sudden mirth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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