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marvelsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From marvel + -some.

Meanings

1. (rare) Characterised or marked by marvelling; marvelous
   • At this point she remembered, sitting there, surrounded by heavy breathing, the constellations flashing, cosmic rays bombarding marvelsome complex coils on the lecturer's dials, that she had forgotten to turn out the gas under the beets. 1945, Morton Thompson, Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player, page 88:
   • Gone on would the lad with his marvelsome prate, of Satan the terrible tale to relate, Mistress Row helpt him out. 1827, Alexander Seton, Poems upon Various Subjects and on Various Occasions:
   • Smoke rose in filmy wisps from some of the draclings' nostrils; others made faint, fluttery whistlings as they slept. It was strange and marvelsome to watch. 2010, Susan Fletcher, Sign of the Dove, page 70:

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