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chapterful en · NOUN

Etymology

From chapter + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as fills a chapter.
   • It’s a compilation of the history and lore of wild rice, nutrition information, preparation and serving suggestions, and chaptersful of recipes divided according to dishes suitable for the four seasons of the year. 1978 January 2, Liz Meegan, “A glamorous food, but: Wild rice isn’t rice”, in The Daily Dispatch, 100th year, number 152, Moline, Ill., page 19, column 1:
   • Only a rough sketch will be attempted here—partly because this topic could fill up a book of its own and partly because the author does not have a bookful or even a chapterful of ideas on the subject. 1970, Saül W. Gellerman, The uses of psychology in management, page 66:
   • Well, we have seen this kind of phenomenon before, and the long-suffering reader will now be expecting a chapterful of negative results on the finite base property for relation-type algebras. 2002, Robin Hirsch, Ian Hodkinson, Relation Algebras by Games, page 582:
   • He cites two chaptersful of specific instances of wasted civilian and uniformed manpower and of waste in procurement of supplies which, if eliminated, would save $3,110,000,000. 1952 April 19, Randall Hobart, “Economy or Runaway Inflation? Douglas Crusades for Less Spending”, in Minneapolis Morning Tribune, volume LXXXV, number 331, Minneapolis, Minn., page 4:
   • I never really discovered how to write this book. A year and more ago, it seemed a fairly simple undertaking. I already felt so much about poverty - I set out with chapterfuls of opinions and theories. 1992, Robert McLiam Wilson, Donovan Wylie, The Dispossessed, page 180:
   • Seven sets of quilting instructions comprise chaptersful of homily, wisdom and reimagined American history: […] 1991 September 8, Marjorie Marks, “Finalists for the 1990-1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes”, in Los Angeles Times (Book Review section), Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020, page 10, column 3:

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