Wondrously

adv. literary. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a wondrous manner; to a wonderful degree; wonderfully, marvelously.

1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, lxxxi. 12. Thane thocht I thus, this is ane felloun phary, Or ellis my witt rycht woundrouslie dois varie.

1535.  Coverdale, Wisd. xvii. 3. They were … put to horrible feare & wonderously vexed.

c. 1586.  C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXXIV. xiv. Thou wondrously didst cause … From thirsty flynt a fountayne flow.

1607.  Shaks., Timon, III. iv. 71. My Lord leanes wondrously to discontent.

1667.  Milton, P. L., III. 587. So wondrously was set his Station bright.

1807.  W. Irving, Salmag., No. 17 (1824), 319. So wonderously adroit in pedestrian exercises.

1905.  Sir F. Treves, Other Side of Lantern, II. ix. (1906), 83. The walls of the main building are wondrously carved.

  So Wondrousness.

1851.  Nichol, Archit. Heav., 240. Because of the very wondrousness of this universe.