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grimful en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English grimful, grymfull, from Old English grimfull (“fierce, terrible”), equivalent to grim (noun) + -ful.

Meanings

1. Characterised by grimness; harsh, wrathful, terrible.
   • And fist, sledge-hammer like; nor grimful face […] 1860, Charles Campbell, History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia, page 545:
   • The greatest favour grimful Death can show Is with swift dart to expedite the blow. 1870, Thomas Roscoe, The Works of Jonathan Swift:

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