The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wonder-worker \Won"der-work`er\, n. One who performs wonders, or miracles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "wonder-worker".
It has been borne in upon me lately that your good scoutmaster is a wonder-worker, and what you have just said strengthens that growing conviction.
It was a clear extrinsic allergic alveolitis but I thought myself rather clever to have traced it to its cause, and when he followed my advice and gave up so much intense composting, he quickly came round, and hailed me as a wonder-worker.
Tibetan deities and figures worshipped were drawn from Buddhas, bodhisattvas, goddesses, the special tutelary gods presiding over sects, monasteries and individuals, defenders of the faith who included great, fierce and terrible gods as well as more modest local spirits, gods of the cardinal points, saints from early Buddhist tradition, later philosophers, teachers, kings and wonder-workers.
The old physicians not only believed in its general efficacy as a wonder-worker in disease, but they believed that each malady could be successfully attacked from some special part of the body,--the strategic point which commanded the seat of the morbid affection.
I do mean, however, that there is no reason to point to Australia as a wonder-worker of woman's accomplishment, since her influence has been unable to free labor from the thralldom of political bossism.