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Definition of Marvelousness
1. n. The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness.
Definition of Marvelousness
1. Noun. The quality or state of being marvelous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Marvelousness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Marvelousness
Literary usage of Marvelousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Berean: A Manual for the Help of Those who Seek the Faith of the by John Humphrey Noyes (1847)
""Phrenologists define marvelousness to be 'credulity—disposition to believe what
is lot proved, or what are considered supernatural manifestations. ..."
2. Lectures on Phrenology: Delivered Before the Young Men's Association for by Amos Dean (1834)
"Wonder, or Marvelousness. The organ of this faculty is situated above Ideality,
and anterior to Hope. A great development of the convolutions on which it ..."
3. Memoirs of John Abernethy, F.R.S.: With a View of His Lectures, Writings by George Macilwain (1853)
"When marvelousness is too much excited, many say, " Ah, how clever that ...
It would seem that it is a great mistake to excite marvelousness on our external ..."
4. The New-England Magazine by Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin (1833)
"... marvelousness so large that it ached ; of a girl whom a gentleman took to his
house on trial, because Dr. S. thought she had a good head ; and of a ..."
5. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1890)
"The tendency to seek for, and believe in, spiritual influences and existences,
which mankind universally manifest, is phrenological ly termed Marvelousness ..."
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