wondrouslyadv.
/ˈwʌndrəsli/, U.S. /ˈwəndrəsli/ literary.
In a wondrous manner; to a wonderful degree; wonderfully, marvellously.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb]
wonderlyc897
sellya1000
wonderc1175
wonderfullya1300
marvellouslya1382
marvellousa1400
marvelly?a1400
wonderful14..
wonderslyc1489
to marvelc1500
wondersc1528
wondrously1535
prodigiously1541
wondrous1557
admirably1570
admiredly1598
to a miracle?1614
marls1615
amazingly1650
miridically1652
mirificously1657
surprisingly1661
to wonder1661
astonishingly1668
prodigious1694
strikingly1752
amazing1760
à merveille1762
astoundingly1826
mirifically1873
breathtakingly1887
eye-poppingly1959
mind-bogglingly1973
staggeringly1976
mind-blowingly1977
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > amazingly or wonderfully
wonderlyc1000
wonderc1175
wonderfullya1300
marvellouslya1382
marvellousa1400
marvelly?a1400
wonderful14..
miraculouslya1425
wonderslyc1489
wondersc1528
wondrously1535
prodigiously1541
wondrous1557
stupendly1621
stupendiously1629
amazingly1650
stupendously1659
astonishingly1668
tremendously1684
prodigious1694
portentously1755
miraculous1766
awesomely1821
stunningly1823
fabulously1845
devastatingly1905
fantastically1923
dizzyingly1952
staggeringly1976
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Wisd. xvii. 3 They were..put to horrible feare & wonderously vexed.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxiv. 79 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 98 Thou wondrously didst cause..From thirsty flynt a fountayne flow.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. iv. 71 My Lord leanes wondrously to discontent. View more context for this quotation
1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 240 Thane thocht I thus: this is ane felloun phary, Or ellis my witt rycht woundrouslie dois varie.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 587 So wondrously was set his Station bright. View more context for this quotation
1807 Salmagundi 11 Nov. 354 So wonderously adroit in pedestrian exercises.
1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern (1906) ii. ix. 83 The walls of the main building are wondrously carved.
Derivatives
ˈwondrousness n.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun]
wonderc1220
marvelc1300
marvelness1434
marvellousness1538
wonderfulness1574
miraculousness1581
wonderment1596
prodigiousness1649
mirability1650
stupendiousness1652
amazingness1677
stupendousnessa1706
wondrousness1851
stupendiosity1912
1851 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens (ed. 9) 240 Because of the very wondrousness of this universe.
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