Meaning of mirability | Babel Free

Definitions

Marvellousness.

literary, rare, uncountable

Examples

“[H]is Positive, tender and pleasing Love; his privative, tart and punitive Love. The former (being not disputed, for it is his proper Ensign) these few Texts do briefly yet clearly display, viz. in its freeness, fervency, mirability, constancy and eternity.”

“The Magnet draws Iron, each of theſe is affected in it ſelf in a wonderful manner, but who hath been ſo ingenious at any time, that of this mirability could render the true and eſſentially infallible Reaſon and of that which onely (and κυρίως) cauſeth this effe[c]t?”

“THe Art of Navigation (by which Iſlands eſpecially are enriched, and preſerved in ſafety from Forenſical Invaſions, and the wonderful works of God in the great Deep, and Foreign Nations are moſt delightfully and fully beheld, &c.) is an Art of exquiſite excellency, ingenuity, rarity, and mirability: […]”

“MIRABILITY, [mirabilitas, L[atin]] admiration.”

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