[f. WONDER v. + -ER1.] One who wonders at something.
1573. Baret, Alv., W 323. A Wonderer: a marueler, mirator.
[1589. Puttenham, Engi. Poesie, III. xix. (Arb.), 233. Paradoxon, or the Wondrer.]
1602. Chettle, Hoffman, III. (1631), F 4 b. That giddy wonderers may amazed stand.
1648. Gage, West Ind., 1. To advance that crackt-brain head in the conceits of his European wonderers.
1734. J. Richardson, Milton’s Par. Lost, p. xciii. Had the Bishop known This Story … he would not have been One of the Wonderers at Milton’s Escape.
1797. Jane Austen, Sense & Sensib., xiv. She was a great wonderer, as every one must be who takes a very lively interest in all the comings and goings of all their acquaintance.
1852. R. B. Mansfield, Log Water Lily, 19. At our start, crowds of wonderers hung over the bridge.
1865. De Morgan, in Athenæum, 25 Nov., 730/1. His backers and his quizzers, his admirers and his wonderers.
