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marvellously, adv.|ˈmɑːvələslɪ| [-ly2.] a. In a marvellous manner or degree.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 93 His dede com him suythe meruellosly. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vii. 159 And Ioseph mette merueillously how the mone and the sonne, And the elleuene sterres hailsed hym alle. c1470Henry Wallace iv. 151 He with power partyt merwalusly. 1530Palsgr. 425/1 He his mervaylously come up within a yere or two. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. ix. 121 b, The children of Israel..had maruellously passed dry foote through the redde sea. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. (1645) 127 His tutelar Angel stil mervailously garded him. 1710Tatler No. 190 ⁋2 The People of this Land be marvelously given to Change. 1874Motley Barneveld I. ii. 137 The King was marvellously out of humour. 1881M. E. Herbert Edith 7 Her hands and feet were marvellously small. b. In affected use; see marvellous a. e.
1926E. O'Neill Great God Brown 16 He can paint beautifully and write poetry and he plays and sings and dances so marvellously. |