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Etymology
From Latin mīrābilis, from mīrārī (“to wonder”). Compare Old French mirable. See marvel. Doublet of mirabilis.
Adjective
mirable (comparative more mirable, superlative most mirable)
- (obsolete) wonderful; admirable
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:Not Neoptolemus so mirable.
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