▪ I. marvelling, vbl. n.
(ˈmɑːvəlɪŋ)
[f. marvel v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb marvel.
| c 1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 40 Whiche hath turned vs alle in suche stonyynge and merueylyng. 1552 Latimer Serm. 3rd Sund. Epiph. (1584) 305 Which word [of God], if it light vpon a good ground..it turneth with his strength the same, and bringeth a meruaylyng. 1592 Stow Ann. an. 1280, 300 On S. Martins euen a great thunder ouerthrew many houses and trees in England, to the maruailing of many. |
▪ II. marvelling, ppl. a.
(ˈmɑːvəlɪŋ)
[f. marvel v. + -ing2.]
That marvels.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. i. Met. iii. 5 (Camb. MS.) Thanne..phebus..smyteth with his beemes in marveylynge Eyen. 1839 Bailey Festus vi. (1852) 78 These same marvelling eyes of mine. 1841 D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 212 They..impressed on the marvelling reader that [etc.]. |
Hence ˈmarvellingly adv., in a marvelling manner.
| 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conq. III. viii. 155 Nataly marvellingly named Mrs. John Corwyn. |