wonder-working

Adjective

Meaning

Doing wonders or surprising things.

Examples

Those incantations of the Spring That made the heart a centre of miracles Grow formal, and the wonder-working bours Arise no more - no more. William Ernest Henley

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask. Jonathan Sacks

There is a spell of unresisted power In wonder-working weak simplicity, Because it is not fear'd. Hartley Coleridge

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