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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
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Bread of such marvellousness you knew you could only be abroad.
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Bread of such marvellousness you knew you could only be abroad.
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Bread of such marvellousness you knew you could only be abroad.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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