wonderwork
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- wonder-worker noun
- wonder-working noun
Etymology
Origin of wonderwork
before 1000; Middle English wonder werk, Old English wundorweorc. See wonder, work
Example Sentences
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In 2009, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger muscled a ballyhooed bill through the Legislature that was heralded as a wonderwork.
From Los Angeles Times
An important part of the remaining positions required for my assault on them was now won by a highly successful enterprise carried out on the evening of September 14, 1916, by which the Wonderwork was stormed.
From Project Gutenberg
It is a wonderwork of feeling and deep richness of harmony, of absolute sincerity and inspiration.
From Project Gutenberg
And here, O captious critic, is a Wonderwork which not only disarms but staggers, paralyses and annihilates all possibilities of animadversion, unless you wish to share the fate of Marsyas, by pitting your puny strength against the overwhelming panoply of divine and immortal genius.
From Project Gutenberg
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