unfull

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Etymology

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From Middle English unfulle (incomplete),[1] from un- (prefix meaning ‘not’)[2] + ful (filled to capacity, full; complete, whole)[3] (from Old English ful, full (filled, full; complete, entire), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (to fill)). The English word is analysable as un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) +‎ full.[4]

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unfull (comparative more unfull, superlative most unfull)

  1. Not full or complete; incomplete, imperfect.
    • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second VVeeke, []. Adam. [].] The Handi-crafts. The IIII. Part of the I. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes [], 3rd edition, London: [] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson []], published 1611, →OCLC, page 290:
      [T]h’vn-full Harmony / Of vn-even Hammers, beating diverſly, / VVakens the tunes that his [Tubal-cain’s] ſvveet numbery ſoule / Yer birth (ſom think) learn’d of the vvarbling Pole.
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References

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  1. ^ unfulle, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ un-, pref.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ^ ful, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  4. ^ unfull, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.