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wonderworthy

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Etymology

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From wonder +‎ -worthy.

Adjective

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wonderworthy (comparative more wonderworthy, superlative most wonderworthy)

  1. Worthy of wonder, amazement, admiration, or awe; worthy of being admired or of holding status as a wonder.
    • 2014, Friedrich August Wolf, Prolegomena to Homer, 1795 - Page 28:
      [...] it was possible for these [Homeric] hymns to be disfigured by so many large additions.” Niebuhr described the Prolegomena in 1827 as “those wonderworthy investigations in which the higher branch of criticism reacht [sic] its perfection.