Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding with storms.

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  • adjective Abounding with storms.

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  • adjective Abounding with storms; stormy.

Etymologies

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storm +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • Voltaire's ostentatious enjoyment of his landscape and his garden was only the expansion of a seafarer, who after a stormful voyage finds himself in a fair haven.

    Voltaire 2007

  • Yet such stormful scenes, with great actors as with small, are perhaps more painful in description than they were in reality; and Voltaire was less discomposed by the lively impetuosity of a companion like Madame du Châtelet than he would have been by the orderly calm of a more precise and perfectly well-regulated person.

    Voltaire 2007

  • From the depths and whirlpools of the stormful currents sounds the moan of eternal sorrow!

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various

  • It can never find a rest in a woman's stormful breast,

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Rousseau was persuaded that Madame d'Epinay was his betrayer, and was seized by one of his blackest and most stormful moods.

    Rousseau Morley, John 1905

  • His stay here was marked by an incident that has filled many pages with stormful discussion.

    Rousseau Morley, John 1905

  • A "Chalet" on this spot now welcomes the tourist, but in those days St. Mary's was a lone, and stormful mountain water with not even a forest ranger's cabin to offer shelter.

    A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

  • Athwart their stormful breath the star-throngs fade:

    Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1882

  • Rousseau was persuaded that Madame d'Epinay was his betrayer, and was seized by one of his blackest and most stormful moods.

    Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

  • His stay here was marked by an incident that has filled many pages with stormful discussion.

    Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

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