Bewander vs Bewonder - What's the difference?
bewander | bewonder |
To wander around or about; roam.
*1839 , The New sporting magazine:
*1907 , Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire :
*1996 , Richard F. Burton (Translator), The Arabian Nights :
To wonder about; wonder over; wonder at; regard wonderingly; admire.
To fill with wonder or admiration; amaze.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xvii:
*:The other seeing his astonishment, / How he bewonder'd was, and how he far'd
As verbs the difference between bewander and bewonder
is that bewander is to wander around or about; roam while bewonder is to wonder about; wonder over; wonder at; regard wonderingly; admire.bewander
English
Verb
(en verb)- Or 'twas wont to be so, Just a few years ago, At the time when Jack used to bewander to know, That a Corporal's Guard Left the Old Barrack [...]
- The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, [...]
- [...] and anon the case became grievous to her and she set out to bewander the regions saying, "Haply shall Allah reunite me with my children and my husband!"
