wondersong
English
Alternative forms
- wonder-song
Etymology
From wonder + song.
Noun
wondersong (plural wondersongs)
- (rare) An exceptionally good or extraordinary song
- 1980, Curtis White, Heretical Songs, page 2:
- Thus, Alma lied. A poignant complaint, piercing wondersong, registering with her frail untaught soprano trembling tones in the uppermost treble-world.
- 2004, Sphyrex of Shobol, Vagabond: Psalms Of The Dreamers, page 211:
- Afterward, Pygarax dared suggest, “Move over Asylum; Halls of the Mountain Kings; Cymnargael; Oh, Cherriel; Refugee; Psalm of the Dreamers; Houses of the Holy; The Vagabond Hymn; and all of those other fabulous wondersongs that are too damn numerous to mention: Y'all got big company.”
- 2012, James W. Goll, Chris Dupre, The Lost Art of Pure Worship:
- The heavenly beings have not yet moved on from their one-word wonder-song: “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY”! They have been singing it since the beginning of time and they do not seem inclined to change their words anytime soon.
- 2017, Otto Scott, Rousseau and Romanticism:
- In general the Greek whom Kipling sings and whom we already find in Schiller — the Greek who is an incarnation of the "joy of life unquestioned, the everlasting wondersong of youth"— is a romantic myth.
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