Definitions
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- noun The study of miracles.
- noun A discourse on miracles.
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- noun the study of miracles
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thaumaturgy is concerned with the how, thaumatology with the why.
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In class a student mentioned the rumors to Father Paulus in the course of a discussion that touched on the subject of thaumatology, or the study of wonders.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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In class a student mentioned the rumors to Father Paulus in the course of a discussion that touched on the subject of thaumatology, or the study of wonders.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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In class a student mentioned the rumors to Father Paulus in the course of a discussion that touched on the subject of thaumatology, or the study of wonders.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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In the Protestant's view, indeed, who assumes that miracles never are, our thaumatology is one great falsehood; but that is _his_ First Principle, as I have said so often, which he does not prove but assume.
Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845
juliefa commented on the word thaumatology
The study of miracles
From Greek thauma- miracle
June 7, 2011