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workful, a.|ˈwɜːkfʊl|
[f. work n. + -ful. Cf. OE. weorcfull ‘operosus’.]
†1. Active, operative. Obs.
1340Ayenb. 199 Þe uirtues huerof we habbeþ y-speke aboue be-longeþ to þe uerste liue þet is ycleped workuol. 1552Huloet, Warkefull, operosus. 1565Harding Confut. ii. xiii. 97 Seest thou then how workefull is the word of Christ? 1587Golding De Mornay v. 60 In the most single essence of God, there is a workfull power. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. To Rdr., The Philosophy of our day and Land being so much workful as the world knows it to be.
2. Full of (hard) work; hard-working.
1854Dickens Hard T. i. v, You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful. 1875Holyoake Hist. Coop. I. 353 Being very watchful and workful as a secretary. 1891Review Rev. 15 Oct. 352/2 Seven happy workful months spent in Paris.
Hence ˈworkfulness, † activity; laborious activity.
1573J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. 17 In the meane tyme his workfulnesse perceth euen into y⊇ uery Church. 1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 459 He might have seen, in any Coketown of the manufacturing districts, an allowance of what is playful, to compensate for its workfulness. 1903J. C. Smith Robt. Wallace vi. 174 He resigned..a position of usefulness and workfulness. |