Marvel vs Excellent - What's the difference?
marvel | excellent |
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
Of the highest quality; splendid.
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
Exceptionally good of its kind.
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*(David Hume) (1711-1776)
*:an excellent hypocrite
*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
*:Their sorrows are most excellent .
(obsolete) Excellently.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
As a noun marvel
is that which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.As a verb marvel
is to become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.As an adjective excellent is
of the highest quality; splendid.As an adverb excellent is
(obsolete) excellently.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 .
excellent
English
(wikipedia excellent)Adjective
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* excellence * excellently * excellentnessAdverb
(en adverb)- Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].