Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Doing wonders or surprising things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Doing wonders or surprising things.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective performing or able to perform wonders or miracles
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Examples
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He tracks down and exposes wonder-working nuns and other charlatans, leftovers from The Canterbury Tales, and instead of hanging or flogging them compels them to confess their fraudulence in public.
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He tracks down and exposes wonder-working nuns and other charlatans, leftovers from The Canterbury Tales, and instead of hanging or flogging them compels them to confess their fraudulence in public.
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When the drumming began, and her voice slid into its wonder-working chant, the frustrations of the Maker of Narrow Houses melted away and he swooned into the necessary trances with no struggle.
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Again linking a minority religion to the faith of the majority, Washington wrote that "the same wonder-working Deity," who led the Israelites out of Egypt had, "been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation."
Michael Meyerson: The History Of Religious Bigotry And The American Voter Michael Meyerson 2011
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Her house was a better setting for her wonder-working, anyway, she told the girl — quiet and remote as it was.
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To a place where wonder-working is said to be strong.
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There was a mention of "wonder-working power" in a State of the Union address, and a reference to a wounded traveler on the road to Jericho during his inaugural address.
John W. Whitehead: Is The Christian Right Getting Fooled Again? John W. Whitehead 2011
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There was a mention of "wonder-working power" in a State of the Union address, and a reference to a wounded traveler on the road to Jericho during his inaugural address.
John W. Whitehead: Is The Christian Right Getting Fooled Again? John W. Whitehead 2011
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There was a mention of "wonder-working power" in a State of the Union address, and a reference to a wounded traveler on the road to Jericho during his inaugural address.
John W. Whitehead: Is The Christian Right Getting Fooled Again? John W. Whitehead 2011
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Again linking a minority religion to the faith of the majority, Washington wrote that "the same wonder-working Deity," who led the Israelites out of Egypt had, "been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation."
Michael Meyerson: The History Of Religious Bigotry And The American Voter Michael Meyerson 2011
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