marvellousness
- a word derived from marvellous.
- a word derived from marvelous.
Example Sentences
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For the two decades after the second world war, there wasn't anyone who could touch us for engineering, innovation and all-round bloody marvellousness.
From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012
It has the richness of the promised land; it has the marvellousness of the desert.
From Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) by Newman, John Henry
She did not want to talk to this unpleasant-looking man, and what he told her about the crops and their marvellousness was half unintelligible to her and wholly a bore.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
In the eighteenth century indeed, grave English physicians, humanists who forgot how Aristotle had exclaimed that marvellousness lies in all natural phenomena, scorned the trivial curiosity of John Hunter respecting flies and tadpoles.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford
When she looked at him like that, Ruth was assuredly marvellous among women, and any ideas derogatory to her marvellousness which he might have had at Bursley and in the train were false ideas.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
