wonderwork

English

Etymology

Middle English wundorweorc.

Noun

wonderwork (plural wonderworks)

  1. A wonderful work or act; a miracle.
    • Byron
      Unheeded, searching through the crowd to find
      Fit speculation; such as in strange land
      He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wonderwork in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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