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marvail

marvail is the obsolete form of marvel.

Meaning of marvel

Verb

marvel (third-person singular simple present marvels, present participle (US) marveling or (UK) marvelling, simple past and past participle (US) marveled or (UK) marvelled)

  1. (intransitive) To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.
    • Marueile not, my brethren, if the world hate you.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 3:13, column 1
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To wonder at.
    • I maruell that her Grace did leaue it out.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to wonder or be surprised.
    • 15th century, Anonymous, Richard the Redeless
      But much now me marvelleth.

See all 6 meanings of marvel

Forms of marvail

Verb
third-person singular presentmarvails
present participlemarvailing
past participlemarvailed
pastmarvailed
Noun
pluralmarvails

Questions about marvail

What is marvail the obsolete form of?
Marvail is the obsolete form of marvel.

Words near marvail in the dictionary

  1. Maruyogon
  2. Maruševec
  3. marv
  4. Marva
  5. Marvadi
  6. marvail
  7. marvailed
  8. marvailing
  9. marvails
  10. Marvdasht
  11. marved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marvail (page history and authors); marvel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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