unwonder

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ wonder.

Verb

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unwonder (third-person singular simple present unwonders, present participle unwondering, simple past and past participle unwondered)

  1. (transitive) To divest of wonder or mystery, as by interpreting or explaining.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[] Iohn Williams []], →OCLC:
      Unwonder me this wonder

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unwonder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)