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songful en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
From Middle English songful, equivalent to song + -ful.
Meanings
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(rare) Disposed or able to sing; melodious
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Tending toward, or having the character of, song
But all this attention to Mr. Hamelin’s technical command should not be taken to imply any deficiency in more songful or lyrical moments.
2007 June 17, The New York Times, “While Lyrical Moments Abound, Tension Sometimes Simmers”, in New York Times:
Forms
Deriveds
songfully · songfulness
Synonyms
songly · melodious · lyrical
songful en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
From song + -ful.
Meanings
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(no-plural) An amount expressed in a song.
“Trouble” is a songful of words, and Patinkin delivered each and every one of them.
2003, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002: A Relevant and Irreverent Record:In the Cuna treatment many interpretations — a songful of them — appear to "come from" the shaman and to be imposed on the patient by this clinician.
2015, Barnaby B. Barratt, Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse:...just as the gondolieri have the useful thought that they will be able to run their kingdom on exemplary egalitarian lines as a compensation for the unrepublican activity of kingship ('For Every One Who Feels Inclined'), as they set off for Barataria to a songful of good advice from their new little wives ('Do Not Forget You've Married Me') who are left waving goodbye to them from the canal bank.
1989, Kurt Gänzl, Andrew Lamb, Gänzl's book of the musical theatre, page 67: