earnful
English
Etymology
From earn + -ful, from earn (“to yearn”).
Adjective
earnful (comparative more earnful, superlative most earnful)
- (obsolete) Full of anxiety or yearning.
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- Hereat the prince of prowess […] did groaning fetch a deep and earnful sigh.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “earnful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)