Thursday, March 11, 2004

t(h)o marvel

to marvel;

• verb: (marvelled, marvelling; US marveled, marveling) be filled with wonder.

• noun: a person or thing that causes a feeling of wonder.

— ORIGIN: Old French merveille, from Latin mirabilis ‘wonderful’, from mirari ‘wonder at’.

(Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English)

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