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† exˈpenseful, a. Obs.
[f. prec. + -ful.]
Attended with or characterized by expense; costly, expensive. Also, Given to expense, extravagant.
1605Chapman All Fools in Dodsley O.P. (1780) IV. 144 To stay him yet from more expenceful courses. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 35 There is no part of Structure more expencefull then Windows. 1667Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 389 The Duchess is not only the proudest woman in the world, but the most expensefull. 1688Lett. Present State Italy 162 The expencefull humour that their late Marriages with France has spred among them. a1716South Serm. (1717) V. 147 An expenseful and laborious Education. 1775in Ash.
Hence † exˈpensefully adv., in a manner involving much expense. † exˈpensefulness, costliness; rarely (of persons) extravagance.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 316 Sir William Sidley, a learned Knight, painefully and expensfully studious of the common good of his countrey. a1613Overbury Archduke's Country Wks. (1856) 232 The cause of the expensefulnes of it [the war]..is the remotenesse of those provinces from Spaine. 1688Ld. Delamere Let. to daughter Wks. (1694) 34 She will..by her expencefulness leave her husband no better than she found him. |