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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of wonder.

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wonder +‎ -est

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Examples

  • When an Infidel rises from the grave, a hideous figure meets him and says, Why wonderest thou at my loathsomeness?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Perhaps thou wonderest what is the sum of the charges laid against me?

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • Thou thinkest then that Adam and Christ were both endued with all the perfection of which the human nature is capable; and therefore wonderest at what has been said concerning Solomon.

    Paradise. Canto XIII 1909

  • P: And if thou wonderest, then wondrous is their saying: When we are dust, are we then forsooth (to be raised) in a new creation?

    Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

  • Perhaps thou wonderest what is the sum of the charges laid against me?

    The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1896

  • Thou wonderest at God's power and their obstinacy; but they mock at the arguments urged to convince them:

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

  • "Perhaps, Simon, thou wonderest within thyself, that since this hath been so lewd a woman, I should so much as suffer her to touch me: but I must tell thee that it is very evident, even from this obsequiousness of hers, and the good offices she hath done to me, that her sins are forgiven her: she could never have given these testimonies and fruits of her gratitude and devotion, if she had still remained in her guilt, and not been loosed form her sins."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • And this at which thou wonderest is Athene's work; she it is that maketh me now like to an old man and a beggar and now to a young man clad in rich raiment. "

    The Story of the Odyssey Alfred John Church 1870

  • Infidel rises from the grave, a hideous figure meets him and says, "Why wonderest thou at my loathsomeness?

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Thou thinkest, then, that Adam and Christ were both endued with all the perfection of which the human nature is capable and therefore wonderest at what has been said concerning Solomon "v. 48.

    Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri 1293

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