Marvel vs Amaze - What's the difference?
marvel | amaze |
That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 10
Wonder, astonishment.
* Sir Walter Scott
To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.
* Bible, 1 John iii. 13
(obsolete) To marvel at.
(obsolete, transitive, used impersonally) To cause to marvel or be surprised.
* Richard the Redeless
(obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious.
(obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.261:
To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex.
* Bible, Matthew xii. 23
* Goldsmith
To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
* 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 103:
* 1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), Quinx'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1361:
In intransitive terms the difference between marvel and amaze
is that marvel is to become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something while amaze is to undergo amazement; to be astounded.marvel
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will do marvels such as have not been done.
- Use lessens marvel .
Verb
- Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
- (Wyclif)
- But much now me marvelleth .
amaze
English
Verb
(amaz)- a labyrinth to amaze his foes
- [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […].
- He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.
- And all the people were amazed , and said, Is not this the son of David?
- Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.
Noun
(-)- All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].
- Shattuck looked at him in amaze .
- She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze , dazed by her own behaviour.