different between wonder vs abashment

English

Etymology

From Middle English wonder, wunder, from Old English wundor (“wonder, miracle, marvel”), from Proto-Germanic *wundr?. Cognate with Scots wunner (“wonder”), West Frisian wonder, wûnder (“wonder, miracle”), Dutch wonder (“miracle, wonder”), Low German wunner, wunder (“wonder”), German Wunder (“miracle, wonder”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish under (“wonder, miracle”), Icelandic undur (“wonder”).

The verb is from Middle English wondren, from Old English wundrian, which is from Proto-Germanic *wundr?n?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wunnerje, West Frisian wûnderje, Dutch wonderen, German Low German wunnern, German wundern, Swedish undra, Icelandic undra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: won?der

Noun

wonder (countable and uncountable, plural wonders)

1. Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.
2. Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable.

3. Someone very talented at something, a genius.

4. The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment, often with awe or reverence.
   • 1781, Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

     All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

   • 1871, Plato, Benjamin Jowett (translator), Theaetetus (section 155d)

     Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).

5. (Britain, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.
6. (US) A kind of donut; a cruller.

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Verb

wonder (third-person singular simple present wonders, present participle wondering, simple past and past participle wondered)

1. (intransitive) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at.
   • October 8, 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 163

     Some had read the manuscript, and rectified its inaccuracies; others had seen it in a state so imperfect, that the could not forbear to wonder at its present excellence.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to query in the mind.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bewonder
• forwonder
• unwonder
• wonderer

Synonyms

• thauma

Translations

Anagrams

• Nedrow, Rowden, Worden, downer, red won, wondre

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wonder, wunder, from Old Dutch wundar, from Proto-Germanic *wundr?, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to wish for, desire, strive for, win, love”). Compare Low German wunder, wunner, German Wunder, West Frisian wonder, wûnder, English wonder, Danish under.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n.d?r/
• Hyphenation: won?der
• Rhymes: -?nd?r

Noun

wonder n (plural wonderen, diminutive wondertje n)

1. wonder, miracle

Synonyms

• mirakel

Derived terms

• wonderteken
• wonderlijk

Anagrams

• worden

English

Etymology

From Middle English abaishment, from Middle French abaissement (“astonishment”) alteration of esbaissement, from esbaiss + -ment. Compare French ébahissement. Equivalent to abash +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bæ?.m?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bæ?.m?nt/

Noun

abashment (countable and uncountable, plural abashments)

1. The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
   • 1540, Myles Coverdale (translator), The Byble in Englyshe, London: Thomas Berthelet, Deuteronomy 28[.28]^[1]

     And the lorde shall smyte the with madnesse, and blyndnesse & abashment of herte.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 3, Canto 8, p. 521,^[2]

     For her faint hart was with the frosen cold

     Benumbd so inly, that her wits nigh fayld,

     And all her sences with abashment quite were quayld.

   • 1768, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality, Dublin: for the author, Volume 3, Chapter 13, pp. 35-36,^[3]

     On my appearing her Spirits again took the Alarm. She scarce ventured a Glance toward me. I was greatly pained by the Abashment under which I saw she laboured, and I hastened to relieve myself as well as her from the Distress.

   • 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son, London: Jonathan Cape, 1970, Book 2, p. 185,^[4]

     “Did he say he would let you meet some white women if you joined the reds?”

     He knew that sex relations between blacks and whites were repulsive to most white men.

     “Nawsuh,” he said, simulating abashment.

   • 2014, Don Gutteridge, Death of a Patriot, New York: Simon & Schuster, Chapter 8, p. 104,^[5]

     […] Marc, who well knew the pangs and abashments of romantic love, recognized the emotions here as genuine and heartfelt and was encouraged.

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