wonderwork

English

Alternative forms

wonder-work

Etymology

From Middle English wonderworc, from Old English wundorweorc, wundorġeweorc (“a wondrous work, miracle”), equivalent to wonder +‎ work. Compare Dutch wonderwerk, German Wunderwerk.

Noun

wonderwork (plural wonderworks)

A wonderful work or act; a miracle.
- 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza X:
  Unheeded, searching through the crowd to find / Fit speculation; such as in strange land / He found in wonder-works 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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