wonder-worker

[ wuhn-der-wur-ker ]

noun

1. a worker or performer of wonders or marvels.

Other Words From

• wonder-working adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of wonder-worker¹

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

According to Merriam-Webster, “fakir” can mean Hindu ascetic or wonder-worker — or con man.

From Los Angeles Times

It doesn’t hurt that Oscar wonder-worker Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company is supervising the campaign; he also has the real-life Lee working the media.

From Time

Nor, as other commentators have said, are we helped to see why this particular charismatic wonder-worker rather than others attracted the extraordinary claim that he was the vehicle of unconditional creative power and the enabler of a new kind of worship – the paradox that the creed of 325 enshrined, in words Christians still use.

From The Guardian

In the beginning, Jesus of Nazareth, a charismatic wonder-worker whose profile has some parallels with fairly well-known Jewish saints and sages of his period, proclaims a radically simplified version of the law of Moses and the religion of the Hebrew prophets, with a special stress on the claims of those who think of themselves as having no claims – the destitute, the marginal, the failed.

From The Guardian

But they are only taught of the wonders, not of the Wonder-worker.

From Project Gutenberg