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stormful, a.|ˈstɔːmfʊl|
[f. storm n. + -ful.]
Abounding in or subject to storms; tempestuous, stormy. lit. and fig. (A favourite word with Carlyle.)
1558T. Phaer æneid viii. (1562) B b iij, Store of strugling wynds & stormful clouds of cloddid raine. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 576 From jeopardy Of stormfull Seas. a1756Collins Superstit. Highlands 67 They know what spirit brews the stormful day. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. v. xi, This Camp of Twenty-thousand, could it be other than of stormfullest Sansculottes? 1883J. Payn Kit xxxii, To shape his thoughts in less vehement and stormful fashion.
Hence ˈstormfully adv., ˈstormfulness.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, With a stormfulness..under which the boldest quailed. Ibid. iii. viii, We..haste stormfully across the astonished Earth. 1904M. Maclean Lit. Celts xviii. 350 A hundred and sixty years pass stormfully by. |