Godfulladj.
/ˈɡɒdfᵿl/, U.S. /ˈɡɑdˌfʊl/, /ˈɡɑdfəl/ rare.
Deriving from or inspired by God; godly, holy; (later also more generally) religious.
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GodfrightOE
goodOE
ghostlyOE
Godfrightya1225
seelya1225
devout?c1225
piteousc1300
spiritualc1384
graciousa1387
godlyc1390
pitifulc1449
inwardc1450
piousc1450
evangelica1475
servantly1503
obedientiala1513
Christian1526
well-believing1529
God-fearing1548
resigneda1555
heavenly minded1569
timorate1570
Godfull1593
pious1595
fearful1597
devoutful1598
devotea1625
serious1684
unctuous1742
theopathetic1749
fire-spirited1845
theopathic1846
unctional1849
interior1854
devotionate1864
sacramental1874
pi1891
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 126 They knew his mercifull, and Godfull meaning, that [etc.].
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. H4 Wherby our populars might taste of some more plausible Panegericall Orations, fine Theurgie, and profound essentiall God-full arguments.
a1674 R. Herrick Hesperides (1869) II. App. i. 440 Those god-full prophetts.
1863 J. Weiss Disc. Death C. Francis 32 Do not brand him with the names of visionary, or fanatic, or pretender: he is no such thing,—he is a true, Godful man.
1913 J. Muir Story my Boyhood vii. 286 Endless, inspiring Godful beauty.
1989 Times 25 Aug. 14/1 Instead of habitually demonizing other races—war-mongering Germans and Japs, ‘godless’ Soviets and ‘godfull’ Arabs—America should demonize itself.
2012 D. Curzon Saving J. Austen 396 An older, outdated time—one that I will no longer tolerate in its Godful Agenda of hate and vicious ‘Morality’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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