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Definition of Marvel
Marvel

That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.

Wonder.

To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.

To marvel at.

To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.

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Marvel Quotations

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
Henry Miller

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus

Marvel Translations

marvel in Afrikaans is verbaas hom
marvel in Danish is undre sig
marvel in Dutch is zich verbazen, zich verwonderen
marvel in German is Wunderding, Wunder, staunen
marvel in Portuguese is maravilha


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