"wonder-striking" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more wonder-striking [comparative], most wonder-striking [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} wonder-striking (comparative more wonder-striking, superlative most wonder-striking)
  1. Inspiring wonder or awe. Synonyms: awestriking
    Sense id: en-wonder-striking-en-adj-F~NViG70 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1643, John Vicars, Prodigies & Apparitions, or, Englands Warning Piece,",
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          "ref": "1887, Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Kernel and the Husk, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Letter 21, p. 234",
          "text": "[…] 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,",
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          "ref": "1952, “The Voyage”, in Roy Campbell, transl., Poems of Baudelaire: A Translation of Les Fleurs du mal, London: Harvill, page 174",
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