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Definition of Marveller
1. Noun. Someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marveller
Literary usage of Marveller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"... not less than his parishioners, is a great marveller at chronological coincidences.
It falls oat that he is placed in the pulpit of ..."
2. Complete Poetical Works by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1864)
"... pampering the fickleness of vanity; I have known him listen with the humble,
enacting silent marveller, ..."
3. Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally (1860)
"... enacting, silent marveller, To hear some purse-proud dunce expound his poverty
of mind; I have heard him wrangle with the obstinate, vowing that he will ..."
4. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas More, Martin Luther, William Roper (1910)
"... viewer of his work and marveller at the same, than he doth to him, which like
a very beast without wit and reason, or as one without sense or moving, ..."
5. Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846)
"... pampering the fickleness of vanity ; I have known him listen with the humble,
enacting silent marveller, To hear some purse-proud dunce expound his ..."
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