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amendful

amendful adjective: much improving.

Adjective

amendful (comparative more amendful, superlative most amendful)

  1. (obsolete) Much improving.
    • Farre fly such rigour your amendfull hand.c. 1612–1630, John Fletcher, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, “The Bloody Brother; or, Rollo. A Tragedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for...
    • wherein whatsoever is presently defective, the anniversaries that, for as many years as God shall please to give me life and faculty, I constantly resolve to perform to his noblest name and virtues, shall, I hope, be furnished with supplies amendful and acceptable .1875, “Eugenia (1614)”, in The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations, page 325

Forms of amendful

comparativemore amendful
superlativemost amendful

Origin of amendful

From amend + -ful.

Questions about amendful

What does amendful mean?
Amendful means much improving.
What part of speech is amendful?
Amendful is an adjective.

Words near amendful in the dictionary

  1. amenders
  2. amendes
  3. amendes honorables
  4. amendest
  5. amendeth
  6. amendful
  7. amending
  8. amendment
  9. amendments
  10. Amendola
  11. Amendolas

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