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molestful en · ADJ

Etymology

From molest + -ful.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Troublesome; vexatious.
   • "[…]Thy mode of speaking makes thee manifest ⁠A native of that noble fatherland, ⁠To which perhaps I too molestful was." 1867, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
   • To her nothing already then and thenceforward was anyway able to be molestful for this chiefly felt all citizens except with proliferent mothers prosperity at all not to can be and as they had received eternity gods mortals generation to befit them her beholding 1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:

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