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momentful en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From moment + -ful.

Meanings

1. Relating to or characteristic of a moment
   • Our unit mite of care and trivialness, And frozen staidness and frigidity; On what shall quickly prove a confluence Of bosom ferment; yea, rack'd seas of thought, A universe of momentful concern. 1829, John Dunlop, Oliver Cromwell. A poem, page 77:
   • I'd made up my mind to treat it right, to make it clear and strong and simple. I wanted to hit the notes as telling as a clock striking. And when I started, that full momentful thing I'd been feeling since yesterday at the foot of Ember Mountain took hold of me. 2013, Fred Chappell, More Shapes Than One: A Book of Stories:
   • How many moments do you have in your day that are actually momentful, meaning you are present, you are aware, and you are engaged only in what is happening right then? 2017, Lindy Lewis, Inspiring Grace as an Alpha-Holic:
   • She's missing hair at her sides, as if a saddle has long rubbed her permanently raw. Her eyes are very blue, eyes void of protest or argument, full of calm, momentful existence, maybe without memory, the eyes of an animal accustomed to the rowel on her bit and a man's hard hand on her headstall. 2016, C. E. Morgan, The Sport of Kings, page 199:
2. Synonym of momentous.
   • After a comparatively momentful trip, I arrived in Odiongan about one o'clock in the afternoon. 1998, Gabriel F. Fabella, The Man from Romblon, Autobiography, page 50:
   • Take that momentful night when WMAL-TV made its baptism into the ether. 1948, Editor and Publisher - Volume 81, page 44:
   • "It was arranged," said Emilius, after a pause, during which he recalled with clearness the momentful history of the few short hours which had sealed his brother's fate, "that Patricia should leave her father's cottage at midnight, when her father was asleep. 2017, Benjamin Farjeon, A Secret Inheritance:

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momentous

momentful en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From moment + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as can be experienced in a moment.
   • ...and it seemed to the girl that the whole wide church with its dimness, and consoling poverty (that half assured her its God was indeed the God of the poor) was filled with the faint susurration of moving lips, a momentful of sorrow cupped from the day-long stream of sorrow that flowed endlessly into this humble church of the outcast, the abandoned, the oppressed, and flowed seaward away into the boundless memory of God 1932, Frank O'Connor, The Saint and Mary Kate, page 54:
   • Yes, I am spoon and spool, milk and needle harvesting quiet by the momentful. 2001, Abacus, page 140:

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