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- noun The quality or state of being
marvellous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like most commentators, Huw, who had had his brain removed for the day – I think it's the law – and replaced with a clockwork mouse channelling the thoughts of the late Barbara Cartland, marvelled at the marvellousness of everything.
Thai buffalo racing gives royal wedding sycophancy a run for its money | Martin Kelner 2011
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Bread of such marvellousness you knew you could only be abroad.
Boutique Breakfast 2009
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Bread of such marvellousness you knew you could only be abroad.
Boutique Breakfast 2009
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Bread of such marvellousness you knew you could only be abroad.
Boutique Breakfast 2009
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Even worse is the thought that ISPs should be policing content, or that we should be brainwashing children to chant the multifaceted marvellousness of intellectual monopolies.
Get Creative with Creative Content Online glyn moody 2008
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He makes Ptolemy send two ambassadors to Herod — which adds much to the marvellousness of the tale, for we know that Herod was not born until long after the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus.
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According to Ball, the sight of foreigners in these areas elicited in the people a sense of wonder and amazement: “They displayed as much marvellousness as we might have done at the appearance of an inhabitant from another planet.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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Having exalted physical motion (or action) to the place he did, he refused to see that the action he prized was more valuable through the thought it developed; consequently he reduced all actions to the same level, and prided himself upon stripping a deed of all its marvellousness or majesty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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It is the marvellousness which paralyzes our judgment.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Various
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She did not love her father for he was entirely too remote and awe-ful for love, but he entranced her with his marvellousness.
This Freedom 1925
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