yearnfuladj.

a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Dj Oh Musicke..lend mee thy yernfull tunes, to vtter my sorow.

1591 R. Greene Maidens Dreame sig. A4^v She wet his visage with a yearnfull streame.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xi. 522 Ala, Ala, was their yernfull note.

1656 E. Prestwich Hectors v. iii. 60 I saw a proper, goodly young Gentleman..lye in the most yearnful condition, all in gore bloud, that it would have grieved any heart to have seen the like.

1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat xix. 308 By great effort we kept back the rising tears, and listened to the wild yearnful melody in silence.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ix. xlvi. 133 His yearnfull heart pitying that wretched sight.

1890 P. S. Hamilton Feast of St. Anne & Other Poems 69 She saw him prisoned, wounded, in sore unrest, And yearnful pity moved her woman's breast.

1889 Los Angeles Times 24 Nov. 3/1 That helps to explain why the ring is so yearnful after Statehood [sc. for New Mexico].

1892 E. L. Arnold in Short Stories Mar. 332 We had eaten all our winter provisions, and were..rusty with basking by winter fires, and yearnful for the breath of the free ocean, or the yet dearer breath of adventure.

1910 Ukiah (Calif.) Republican Press 28 Oct. He purchases fruit for youngsters who have a yearnful look as the train butcher passes.

1980 I. Doig Winter Brothers liv. 150 Catching his third wind, so to speak, after having moved his life to California and then to the Washington coastline, Swan looks to me ready—yearnful—to venture again.

2008 B. Corbett Town like Paris vi. 35 Less good-looking..men would occasionally drive slowly down the street, stopping at intervals and giving hopeful, yearnful looks at their young, elusive quarry.