wonder-striking

comparative more wonder-striking · superlative most wonder-striking

1. Inspiring wonder or awe.

   The sensation of having the mysterious girl at his elbow in that wonder-striking interior was magnificent.

   1918, Arnold Bennett, The Roll-Call, London: Hutchinson, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 26

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   […] hath not the Lord used that other more terrible and heart-frighting course […] of Prodigies, Signes and Apparitions in the ayre, and other most degenerating, unnaturall and wonder-striking contingents amongst us here at home?

   1643, John Vicars, Prodigies & Apparitions, or, Englands Warning Piece,

   […] by revealing to us the wonder-striking order of the infinite stars […] Night leads us to dream, or to infer, that there may be other pages still unturned in the book of Nature’s mysteries,

   1887, Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Kernel and the Husk, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Letter 21, p. 234

   We have seen wonder-striking robes and dresses, Women whose nails and teeth the betel stains And jugglers whom the rearing snake caresses.

   1952, “The Voyage”, in Roy Campbell, transl., Poems of Baudelaire: A Translation of Les Fleurs du mal, London: Harvill, page 174

   Synonyms: awestriking