marvelous

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

M'ARVELOUS, adjective 1. Wonderful; strange; exciting wonder or some degree of surprise. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Psalms 118:1. 2. Surpassing credit; incredible. 3. The marvelous in writings, is that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; opposed to probable. 4. Formerly used adverbially for wonderfully, exceedingly.
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