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tradeful en · ADJ

Etymology

From trade + -ful.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Full of trade; busy with commerce or involved in a large amount of business.
   • Ye tradefull Merchants that with vveary toyle, / Do ſeeke moſt pretious things to make your gain: […] 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XV”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, recto:

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