Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who performs wonders or surprising things; a thau-maturgist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who performs wonders, or miracles.

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Examples

  • Brother Caspian demanded: A wonder-worker of her calibre does not play games.

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • The rickety wagon of a passing-through wonder-worker of weather had deposited the good captain and his daughter right in the square, on a hot and high, bright noon-time.

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Then it came: she was the newest wonder-worker in the town, the one they called the Mysteress.

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Such was her certitude that I accepted it fully, as I had accepted the amazement of the lepers of Samaria staring at their smooth flesh; and I was bitter that so great a woman should be so easily wit-addled by a vagrant wonder-worker.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • Long experience told Cressy that Farien had recognised a wonder-worker and was taking this opportunity to assess her.

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • A wonder-worker may not work wonders upon herself, for example.

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • She had thought it a peculiar, somehow gossipy and womanish, habit of his and, now the woman was fresh in her mind again, she recalled he had said to her a few days later that the new wonder-worker had bought a house on the outskirts of Edgeton.

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Burial (1994): Burial is the third book of the ‘Manitou’ series, featuring the sorcery of Native American wonder-worker Misquamacus.

    Graham Masterton: Ghosts (and demons) of the past « Skulls in the Stars 2008

  • In his seminal work The Manitou, for instance, the wonder-worker Misquamacus seeks revenge upon the ‘white man’ for the mass murder of Native Americans.

    Graham Masterton: Ghosts (and demons) of the past « Skulls in the Stars 2008

  • This year he has passed by you in the ranks of the innumerable people who go in procession behind the ikon of the Mother of God to the Korennaya; last year you found him sitting with a wallet on his shoulders with other pilgrims on the steps of Nikolay, the wonder-worker, at Mtsensk ... he comes to Moscow almost every spring.

    The Inn 2006

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