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fountful en · ADJ

Etymology

From fount + -ful.

Meanings

1. (archaic, poetic) Full of fountains or springs.
   • The golden pleasures of love and song will me whole And in fountful recesses I'll repeat (beyond the ear of shepherds) The stories I heard in a dream, and your lambent kisses I stole And stood upon a hill surrounded by songful birds 1959, Mehdi Ali Seljouk, My Goddess: A Devotional Epic, page 31:
   • c. 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, Book XV 'Go wait the Thunderer's will,' Saturnia cried, / 'On yon tall summit of the fountful Ide: / There in the Father's awful presence stand, / Receive and execute his dread command.'
2. Gushing.
   • Far beyond the tangible love goeth When the matron's holy fountful breast Of the slumbering infant's breathings knoweth, Distant in its rosy curtained nest : 1875, Charles Curle, “Breathings of the Invisible”, in Wind Tossed Leaves Reclaimed, page 3:
   • ...foliage where fountful rivers run and limpid pools lie beneath plashy rocks. 2001, “Big Walls in Kenya”, in The Alpine Journal, volume 106, page 25:
   • Dost thou explore Sabrina's fountful source, Where huge Plinlimmon's hoary height afoends; 1766, Robert Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, volume 4, page 62:

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