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wonder + struck
Adjective
wonderstruck (comparative more wonderstruck, superlative most wonderstruck)
- Filled or overcome with wonder.
- Synonym: awestruck
- 1611, Thomas Middleton, No Wit, No Help Like a Woman’s, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1657, Act II, Scene 1, p. 50,
- I am so wonder-struck at your blest presence,
- That through amaz’d Joy, I neglect my duty!
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:Soft shall we live, my love, and easy shall we go. Crowned shall we be with the diadem of Kings. Worshipping and wonder struck all peoples of the world, Blinded shall fall before our beauty and might.
1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:When the morning [running] practice was over the trainer would make his comments and sometimes illustrate them by shuffling along for a yard or so comically in an old pair of blue canvas shoes. A small ring of wonderstruck children and nursemaids would gather to watch him […]
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