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Webster 1913 Edition
Teenful
Teen′ful
,Adj.
Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
Definition 2024
teenful
teenful
English
Alternative forms
- teenfull
Adjective
teenful (comparative more teenful, superlative most teenful)
- (poetic, dialectal, archaic or obsolete) Full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious
- O, whither tends the lamentable spite Of this world's teenful apprehension, Which understands all things amiss, whose light Shines not amidst the dark of their dissension? — Shakespeare.
- 1922, Reynold A. Nicholson, Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose - Page 91:
- Ne'er the sun might see Me bare who now with bloodshot eyes And teenful heart and cheeks how wan, Gathering bread in beggar's guise, From door to door must wander on.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)