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weariful, a.|ˈwɪərɪfʊl|
[f. weary v. + -ful.]
1. That causes weariness; that tires one's endurance or patience.
c1454Pecock Folewer 15 Maters..which ellis schulde haue be to hem ouyr hard and ouer weriful to be vndirstonde. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 82 Yef y schulde..declare synglerly the peynys and tormentys of euery syngler cryme..hit wulde be ouer teduse and weriful to the redder therof. 1591R. Turnbull St. James 51 That we..with inuincible fortitude and pacience, may finish our wearifull pilgrimage in his feare, religion and seruice. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Weariful, tiresome; giving exercise to patience. Ex. ‘I have had a weariful bout of it.’ 1826Galt Last of Lairds i. 8 O that wearyfu' jaunt to Embro' to see the King! 1846G. S. Faber Lett. Tractar. Secess. 194 So proceeds the Professor through ten weariful pages. 1849C. Brontë Shirley vi, This foreign style of darning..was done stitch by stitch, so as exactly to imitate the fabric of the stocking itself; a wearifu' process. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII. xiii. 210 Visions of dreary wanderings through weariful saloons. 1912W. S. Blunt Land War in Ireland ix. 339 Twenty weariful Irish miles.
b. of a person. Sc.
a1700Gaberlunzie-Man vii, The weirifou' Gaberlunzie-man. 1882Stevenson Fam. Stud. (1888) 299 She was a religious hypochondriac, a very weariful woman.
c. of the weather. Chiefly Sc.
1872J. Payne Songs of Life & Death 224 Wearyful winter is gone at last. 1874R. Tyrwhitt Sketch. Club 223 Spite of gray winter and weariful weather. 1894A. Reid Sangs o' the Heatherland 48 The wearifu' snaw, O, the wearifu' snaw!
2. Full of weariness; utterly fatigued. Of a person: Languid or affecting languor. Of a look, sigh, smile: Exhibiting or expressing weariness.
1862M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I xxiv. (1876) 323 He lay still for some time with a weariful smile upon his lips. 1880G. Macdonald Diary Old Soul Feb. 25, And the thought-spirit, weariful and wan,..Sinks moveless. 1880Jefferies Greene Ferne Farm 209 The wearyful women came homeward from the gleaning. 1885J. Ingelow Sleep of Sigismund 8 His weird is on him to grope in the dark with endless Weariful feet for a goal that shifteth still. 1891Meredith One of our Conq. xxviii, Colney cast a weariful look backward. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 9 Lilias sighed the long, weariful sigh of hope deferred.
Hence ˈwearifully adv., ˈwearifulness.
1838Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 226, I quite dread to hear the subject mentioned, for fear of a quarrel, besides the wearifulness. 1885Meredith Diana iv, There was a strange interjection, as to the wearifulness of constantly wandering. 1888Black In Far Lochaber xxiii, The long night passed, slowly and wearifully. 1907C. G. Harper Rural Nooks 14 The blurred lights of the streets and shops going weirdly and wearifully by. |