wonder-striking
English
Adjective
wonder-striking (comparative more wonder-striking, superlative most wonder-striking)
- Inspiring wonder or awe.
- Synonym: awestriking
- 1643, John Vicars, Prodigies & Apparitions, or, Englands Warning Piece,
- […] 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?
- 1887, Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Kernel and the Husk, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Letter 21, p. 234,
- […] 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,
- 1918, Arnold Bennett, The Roll-Call, London: Hutchinson, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 26,
- The sensation of having the mysterious girl at his elbow in that wonder-striking interior was magnificent.
- 1952, Roy Campbell (translator), “The Voyage” in Poems of Baudelaire: A Translation of Les Fleurs du mal, London: Harvill, p. 174,
- We have seen wonder-striking robes and dresses,
- Women whose nails and teeth the betel stains
- And jugglers whom the rearing snake caresses.