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teenful en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English teneful, from Old English tēonful, tēonfull (“grievous; vexatious; troublesome; woeful”), equivalent to teen + -ful.

Meanings

1. (archaic, dialectal, obsolete, poetic) Full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious
   • Ne'er the sun might see Me bare who now with bloodshot eyes And teenful heart and cheeks how wan, Gathering bread in beggar's guise, From door to door must wander on. 1922, Reynold A. Nicholson, Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose - Page 91:
   • O, whither tends the lamentable spite Of this world's teenful apprehension, Which understands all things amiss, whose light Shines not amidst the dark of their dissension? 1612, William Shakespeare, A Funeral Elegy:

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