Meanings
plural marvells
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of marvel.
And therefore, if a Rodde carie the feare of a Sworde, it is no maruell, if those that be fearefull of nature, chose rather to forsake the Plaie, than to stand alwaies within the feare of a Sworde in a fonde mans handling.
1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader
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