miraculum – English noun declension

English noun forms of miraculum

Noun: miraculum
Singularmiraculum

Sample Sentences

  • What is a miracle? A miracle—miraculum, wonder, something that astonishes—is simply a thing out of the common course, and is no more an exhibition of power than the ordinary operations of nature. […] If a sick man, almost too feeble to move a limb, should all at once rise from his bed, bid his doctor and nurse farewell, and go to work in his field, that would be a miracle, a miraculum, a most astonishing occurrence. [1857 October, J. A. Nash, M. P. Parish, “Speculations on the Origin of Plants. By David Rice, M.D.”, in The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil. […], volume X, number 4, New York, N.Y.: J. A. Nash & M. P. Parish, footnote by editors, page 206:]
  • [W]hat is there wonderful in these ever-present spirit-agencies and intelligent wills, whilst working under God every material force, changing at any moment whether perceptibly or imperceptibly the direction of the material forces they wield; what miraculum would there be if every drop of rain is guided or shot through air by a living power? [1869, Benjamin Place [pseudonym; Edward Thring], chapter VI, in Thoughts on Life-Science, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 73–74:]
  • It’s a miraculum she warn’t tored all into little pieces no bigger dan a wash tub. [1881, Warren J[udson] Brier, A Soldier of Fortune: A Modern Comedy-Drama in Five Acts. […] (The Star Drama), Chicago, Ill.: T[homas] S[tewart] Denison, →OCLC, act III, scene i, page 30:]
  • She had no time for the virtues of patience and we would hear the familiar sigh pitched to perfection and ‘All we need, all we want is a miraculum, just one small one.’ As the convoluted talk of illusory deities and miracles spiralled, we elder children sometimes deviated from my mother’s doctrine by demanding a straight answer as to how she saw her miracle manifesting. [2001 October, Bronwyn Cleland, “Deux Ex Machina”, in Room 14 at 8 O’Clock: An Anthology of Poetry & Short Stories (The Richmond Writers’ Circle Anthology 2001), Richmond, London: Richmond Writers’ Circle, →ISBN, page 40:]
  • This theological interpretation is meaningfully illustrated with a miraculum, which according to Ebo (III, 1) happened in Güzkow. An enormous swarm of terrifying flies flew out of a pagan temple destroyed during Otto’s missions, embodying the residing evil forces. Chased away with prayers and signs of cross they ultimately flew to Rugia. [2020, Stanisław Rosik, “The space of the turning point in the context of its neighbours: Pomeranian communities within the circle of the pagan ‘international’”, in Stanisław Rosik, editor, Europe Reaches the Baltic: Poland and Pomerania in the Shaping of European Civilization (10ᵗʰ–12ᵗʰ Centuries) (Scripta Historica Europaea; 6), Wrocław: University of Wrocław, →ISBN, section 3 (Pomerania – Poland – Europe. In search of their own paths), subsection II (Pomerania in the zone of Polish expansion in the age of Bolesław III the Wrymouth. Conquest and Christianization), page 330:]

Etymology

From Latin mīrāculum. Doublet of milagro and miracle. See: Latin Nouns 'mīrāculum'.