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wonderable en · ADJ

Etymology

From wonder + -able.

Meanings

1. That can be wondered.
   • The most remarkable character of questioning is the way it transforms your sensible or imaginable experiences into ‘wonderable experiences.’ 1997, Joseph Flanagan, Quest for Self-Knowledge: An Essay in Lonergan's Philosophy, University of Toronto Press, published 2002, →ISBN, chapter 3.2, 74:
   • He was in evening dress, and wore an exceedingly massive gold chain, supporting a wonderable number of valuable seals. 1880, George Gissing (author), Debbie Harrison (editor), Workers in the Dawn, Victorian Secrets Limited (2010), chapter 16, 183
   • The last, or Transformation Scene, is, perhaps, the best ever produced here, the chief feature being a wonderable number of silver columns, interspersed with palm-leaves and fairies, the result of which is gorgeous in the extreme. 1860 December 30, “Strand”, in “Theatricals in the Christmas Week”, in The Era, volume XXIII, number 1,162, London, page 11, column 3:

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