Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WON'DROUS
WON'DROUS, adv.
In a wonderful or surprising degree; as, a place wondrous deep; you are wondrous fair; wondrous fond of peace. These phrases of Cowley, Dryden and Pope, are admissible only in the ludicrous and burlesque style.
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