wonder-wounded love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Struck with wonder or surprise; wonder-stricken.

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Examples

  • He "prates of mountains;" his "phrase conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand like wonder-wounded hearers;" freedom, virtue, fate, the sea and the sun, gods and men before whom the gods themselves stand abased, hurtle through the poem in a confused thunder of sonorous phrase.

    Latin Literature 1902

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