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stateful, a. Now rare or Obs.|ˈsteɪtfʊl|
[f. state n. + -ful.]
Full of state or dignity, stately.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vi. 342 To humble suiters neither stern nor statefull. 1624T. Gokin Medit. Lord's Prayer in Farr Sel. Poetry Jas. I (1848) 324 Thou lookest down from heaven, thy stateful throne.
Hence ˈstatefully adv., ˈstatefulness.
1655Fuller Hist. Camb. 79 It is not worthy to carry the books after Oxford Library for the statefulness of the Edifice. 1891S. J. Duncan American Girl in Lond. 68, I was rolling up Regent Street statefully in the carriage of Mrs. Torquilin. |