à merveilleadv.
/ˌa mɛːˈveɪ/, /ˌa məːˈveɪ/, U.S. /ˌɑ mɛrˈveɪ/, /ˌɑ mərˈveɪ/ Admirably, wonderfully. Cf. to admiration at admiration n. Phrases 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adverb]
wonderlyc897
sellya1000
wonderc1175
wonderfullya1300
marvellouslya1382
marvellousa1400
marvelly?a1400
wonderful14..
wonderslyc1489
to marvelc1500
wondersc1528
wondrously1535
prodigiously1541
wondrous1557
admirably1570
admiredly1598
to a miracle?1614
marls1615
amazingly1650
miridically1652
mirificously1657
surprisingly1661
to wonder1661
astonishingly1668
prodigious1694
strikingly1752
amazing1760
à merveille1762
astoundingly1826
mirifically1873
breathtakingly1887
eye-poppingly1959
mind-bogglingly1973
staggeringly1976
mind-blowingly1977
1762 L. Sterne Let. 19 Oct. in Lett. 1739–64 (2009) 294 French speaking, in..which she does à marveille.
1781 J. Watt Let. 1 Nov. in J. P. Muirhead Origin & Progress Mech. Inventions J. Watt (1854) II. 134 A horizontal-axled ecliptic wheel, which performs a merveil.
1823 W. Scott Let. Nov.–Dec. (1935) VIII. 129 Our Bannatyne Club goes on à merveille only that at our Gaudeamus this year we drank our wine more majorum and our new judge Lord Eldin had a bad fall on the staircase.
1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase vii. 83 When the heart dances with the feet, then it will be à merveille.
2003 E. H. Hively Private Madness iv. xix. 137 Soon she could announce that..‘The Applewood Tree’ was finished, that it was light and amusing, and that it would illustrate à merveille.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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