bewonder
English
Etymology
From be- + wonder. Compare Dutch bewonderen (“to admire”), German bewundern (“to admire”), Swedish beundra (“to admire”).
Verb
bewonder (third-person singular simple present bewonders, present participle bewondering, simple past and past participle bewondered)
- (archaic, transitive) To wonder about; wonder over; wonder at; regard wonderingly; admire.
- (archaic, transitive) To fill with wonder or admiration; amaze.
- Synonym: forwonder
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xvii:
- The other seeing his astonishment, / How he bewonder'd was, and how he far'd […]
References
- bewonder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Dutch
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Verb
bewonder
- first-person singular present indicative of bewonderen
- imperative of bewonderen