marvels

Word Origin & History

c.1300, "miracle," also "wonderful story or legend," from Old French merveille "a wonder, surprise, miracle," from Vulgar Latin *miribilia (also source of Spanish maravilla, Portuguese maravilha, Italian maraviglia), altered from Latin mirabilia "wonderful things," from neuter plural of mirabilis "wonderful, marvelous, extraordinary; strange, singular," from mirari "to wonder at," from mirus "wonderful" (see smile). A neuter plural treated in Vulgar Latin as a feminine singular. Related: Marvels.

Example Sentences for marvels

And the marvels of extinct nations can not hold a candle to the marvels of Nature.

Such a man could still do marvels, and it was marvels that one must do to help her in her search.

The world was too full of marvels for any enduring sense but wonder.

We need not fare far afield to light on marvels, if that is our object.

Who can describe the marvels, the variations, the mystery of Grace?

Yet that system—the English or insular, I call it—has done, as it will do, marvels.

Marvels of engineering and mechanical skill, these vessels were.

Marvels attended his birth, and miracles followed him in life and in death.

Marvel of marvels, Withrow had not spoken in that crimson week of autumn.

Among these marvels is the Simplon Tunnel, famous the world over.

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