MARVEL, MARVELLING
ADJECTIVES
► TERATICAL relating to marvels or prodigies; incredible, wonderful, miraculous → 1722
NOUNS
► ADMIRATION the act of wondering or marvelling; wonder, astonishment, surprise → 1506 arch.
► FIRLY-FARLY a wonderful thing, a marvel → 19C Eng. dial.
► GOLLY-WHOPPER something extraordinary of its kind; a wonder, a marvel → 1933 Amer. dial.
► MARL a marvel, a wonder → 1609 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MARVELMENT the condition of marvelling → 1823
► SIGN a marvel or wonder → a1400-50 obs.
► STUPOR MUNDI the wonder of the world; a person who or thing which is an object of general or widespread astonishment, admiration, or bewilderment; a marvel, a prodigy → 1587
VERBS
► ADMERVEYLLE to marvel; to marvel at, to wonder at, to admire → 1474 obs.
► ADMIRE to feel surprise or astonishment; to wonder, to marvel → c1590 obs.
► AWONDER to astonish, surprise, marvel; to be astonished or amazed; to cause to wonder → c1230 obs.
► MARL to marvel, to wonder → 1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MIRATE to wonder, to marvel; to admire something → 1893 Amer. dial.