Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of grief or sorrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of grief or sorrow.
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- adjective archaic Expressing or full of
grief ;painful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes, you're right, this is something that many of the most griefful players do believe, or at least use a excuse to defend their actions.
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But Miss Lisle, with her "great, grave griefful air," was fit to take a leading part in poem or drama, and here was a man worthy to play hero passing her on the staircase of a dingy lodging-house!
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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The lad she followed with puzzled and griefful eyes was of a goodly presence, and never goodlier than in his uniform.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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It is very doubtful whether, to an untried or a young man, the warnings of Solomon, or the outpourings of that griefful prophet whose name now passes for a lamentation, have done much good.
Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884
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It is very doubtful whether, to an untried or a young man, the warnings of Solomon, or the outpourings of that griefful prophet whose name now passes for a lamentation, have done much good.
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867
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The dole of someone in a griefful state is powerfully exhibited by Spenser when cannibals with sharp knives and hungry looks gaze upon the Damzell in Book VI, Canto VIII, of The Faerie Queene:
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