Word Meanings - SELCOUTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rarely known; unusual; strange. wondered much at his so selcouth case. Spenser.

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• SELCOUTH
  Rarely known; unusual; strange. wondered much at his so selcouth case. Spenser.
• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• WONDER
  OS. wundar, OHG. wuntar, G. wunder, Icel. undr, Sw. & Dan. under, and perhaps to Gr. 1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• WONDERLAND
  A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.
• WONDERWORK
  A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.
• WONDERLY
  Wonderfully; wondrously. Chaucer.
• WONDERINGLY
  In a wondering manner.
• KNOWN
  of Know.
• UNUSUALITY
  Unusualness. Poe.
• STRANGENESS
  The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
• WONDERMENT
  Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.
• WONDER-WORKER
  One who performs wonders, or miracles.
• WONDEROUS
  See WONDROUS
• WONDER-WORKING
  Doing wonders or surprising things.
• WONDERER
  One who wonders.
• STRANGELY
  1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. Shak. 2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. You all look strangely on me. Shak. I do in justice charge
• STRANGER
  One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered
• STRANGE
  estrange, F. étrange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, 1. Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer. One of the strange queen's lords. Shak.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• UNKNOWN
  Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. Camden.
• BEWONDER
  1. To fill with wonder. 2. To wonder at; to admire.