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springful en · ADJ · etymology 1

From spring + -ful.

Pertaining to the season spring; springlike; vernal.
- The vivid disarray that woodlands feel As trim dead Winter steals away On the first warm springful day. 1941, J. A. Chadwick, Poems, by Arjava, page 125:
- ...as when the warm southwest wind comes up breathing kindness from the sea, unheralded, suspected, when the earth is in her saddest frost, and on the instant all the lands are thawed and opened to the genial influences of a sweet springful whisper— so thawed his heart, and the seed which had lain dormant in its fertile soil sprang up, grew, ripened, and brought forth an abundant harvest. 1913, Samuel Butler, The fair haven, page 50:
- Amidst a springful sunny bliss Nor you, nor I, none else, Only the pigeons shining. 1969, Nandagopāla Senagupta, A Book of Bengali Verse from 10th to 20th Century, page 96:

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From spring + -ful.

As much as lasts or is produced in the spring.
- Amidst a world whistling Not with summery wind But radiating a springful Of deathly atoms. 1970, Afro-Asian Writings - Issue 5, page 29:
- The palanquin was at once love's veena and a creeper shining with a springful of flowers; 1954, Tambimuttu, India love poems: selected and with an essay on woman in India, page 91:
- A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October. 1944, Dylan Thomas, Poem in October:
As much as flows in a spring (of water).
- The dipping of a spoon into a springful of water. 1977, Robert Peters, Gauguin's chair: selected poems, 1967-1974, page 29:

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