| 释义 |
songful, a.|ˈsɒŋfʊl|
[f. song n. + -ful.]
Abounding in song; musical, melodious.
a1400Prymer (1891) 98 Songful weren to me thi riȝtwesnesses in stede of my pilgrimage. 1728Mallet Excursion Wks. 1759 I. 76 So pass the songful hours. 1782W. Stevenson Hymn to Deity 14 The songful tenants of the air. 1836New Monthly Mag. XLVIII. 150 Thou lov'st the little songful lyre. 1844Mrs. Browning Mourning Mother 55 Trees..That rock to songful sound. 1885S. Cox Exposit. vii. 86 Why..should we not enter into it and dwell in a songful security?
Hence ˈsongfully adv.; ˈsongfulness n.
1850Kingsley Misc. (1859) I. 218 An earnest songfulness (to coin a word) which Wordsworth seldom attained. 1880N. Smyth Old Faiths in New Light vi. (1882) 218 All things give unto us,..birds of their songfulness; the moon of her silvery light. 1888Sat. Rev. 28 July 108 They crowd into their boats,..and pull songfully towards the Rais. |