warful
English
Etymology
Adjective
warful (comparative more warful, superlative most warful)
- Indicative of war; warlike.
- 1733, Paul Whitehead, The State Dunces:
- Hence the long Train of never-ending Jars / Of warful Peaces, and of peaceful Wars, […]
- 1943, Linus R. Fike, No nation alone: a plan for organized peace (page 56)
- Sabotage being itself a warful act and carrying its own penalty, would not excuse the original unwarful act nor any subsequent unwarful acts of counter-retaliation.
- 2003, Richard Schechner, The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance (page 181)
- The similarity of these Indian and Greek tales of far-ranging warful travels should not surprise us: their authors were people of the horse, they rode far in several directions—south, west, east—from their “origins” in the Caucasus region; […]