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taleful en · ADJ

Etymology

From tale + -ful.

Meanings

1. Abounding with stories.
   • To see the houshold flock around the fire, The children listening to the taleful Sire, To hear the song— harmless sports to join, Live o'er past days, and call these blessings mine! 1807, Select Collection of Poems:
   • The cottage hind / Hangs o'er th'enlivening blaze, and taleful there / Recounts his simple frolic. 1798, James Thomson, Winter:
   • Because democracy is not an upstart which is backed by no good pedigree and tradition. The history of democracy is fairly long and quite taleful too. 1960, Calcutta Review:
   • Would her taleful past that delimited her present project into her taleful future - or taleless! 2004, Bode Osanyin, Seraro and Joy, page 225:

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