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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1513, 1587-1605
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(Wondiryng,) Wonderyng(e, vbl. n. Also: wondering, wondryng, -ing, vondrynge, woundring. [ME and e.m.E. wondring (Cursor M.), wonderyng (a1500).] a. The state of being amazed, the action of feeling wonder; surprise, amazement. (Wondir v. 1.) b. An object of wonder, a marvel.a. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii 157.
Quhat confluens of ȝung & ald Than was thare, ma nocht be tald; Na of the merwal quhat wondering a1400 Legends of the Saints xl 645.
Thru it haldine wes thar name … in schame, & to the puple in vondrynge—Sa wes it borne a bys[n]yng—& in gret horrour … Til al that euire it had sene c1420 Wynt. viii 5244.
Tharoff the Erle had wonderyng [C. wonderynge], … And sayd, ‘Lw! stowt hartis off men’ 1587 Buchan Cl. IV 134.
At times whole shyppes full, to the wonderynge of foren nacyons a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxiv 16.
O, wareit be my weird, For wondring on a deitie divyneb. 1513 Doug. v ix 61.
Acestes … threw ane arow in the ayr … And … in thar sychtis sprang A fellon grysly monstre and wondryng, … this schaft, fleand in the moyst ayr, Brynt in a bles 1513 Doug. vi iv 92 (Sm.).
Befoir the port and first jawis of hell … Witles Discord, that woundring maist crewell
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