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ˈwonder-ˌworker
[f. wonder n. + worker.]
One who performs wonders or marvellous things; esp. a worker of miracles; a thaumaturge.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 169 Some of their better Prælates have removed..an image of our Lady, upon the broaching of a report that it discovered it selfe for a Wonder-worker. 1641S. Fawcet Seasonable Serm. 17 The praying generation are the wonder-workers of the world. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xix. 427 That he may be accounted a stupendious Wonder-worker, a Creatour of his Creatour. 1718Atterbury Serm., Acts xxvi. 26 (1734) I. 18 In China and Japan these Wonder-workers may pretend to have done as many Miracles as they please. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. xviii. (1879) 546 A wonderworker in cloth. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 375 Hannibal..taking his place..among the great wall-builders and wonder⁓workers of Eastern history and legend. 1895Fr. Marianus St. Anthony of Padua 145 The saintly Friar, the Wonder⁓worker filled with love and sympathy.
So ˈwonder-ˌworking ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1594Selimus 284 Your wisedomes ouerflowing wit, Digs deepe with learnings wonder-working spade. 1644Vicars God in Mount 199 To the high honour of our great and wonder-working God. 1679Hist. Jetzer 18 They fall down before this wonder-working Image. 1710Broome Paraphr. Habakkuk iii. iii, Waving his Wonder-working Wand. 1776Burney Hist. Mus. I. 194 The music of Orpheus, Amphion, and such wonder-working bards. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. i. ii. (1861) 10 The wonder-working sword of Harlequin. 1847Keble Serm. x. 270 In the mysterious and wonder-working Prayer of Consecration. 1895Catholic Mag. Aug. 228 There came..the wonder-working body of St. Cuthbert. 1900F. T. Elworthy Horns of Honour iii. 180 There is some confusion about the several stories told of its [sc. the hand of glory's] wonder-working. |