worldful
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]worldful (plural worldfuls or worldsful)
- As much or as many as would fill a world.
- 1935 August 28, Irving S. Cutter, “How to Keep Well: Paresis or Dementia”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCIV, number 206, page 10:
- As one writer put it: “Wealth is counted in worldsful of gold. […]”
- 1963–1973, Poul Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader[1], Baen Books, published 2009:
- "[…] Entire worldsful of beings who look at yonder stars till it aches in them, and know that except for a few lucky individuals, none of them will ever get out there, nor will their descendants have any real say about the future, no, will instead remain nothing but potential victims—"