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gronefull

gronefull is the obsolete form of groanful.

Meaning of groanful

Adjective

groanful (comparative more groanful, superlative most groanful)

  1. (obsolete) agonizing; painful
    • Adowne he kest it with so puissant wrest, / That backe againe it did aloft rebownd, / And gaue against his mother earth a gronefull sownd.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42

Forms of gronefull

comparativemore gronefull
superlativemost gronefull

Questions about gronefull

What is gronefull the obsolete form of?
Gronefull is the obsolete form of groanful.

Words near gronefull in the dictionary

  1. Grondins
  2. Grondona
  3. grone
  4. Groneck
  5. groned
  6. gronefull
  7. Groner
  8. Groners
  9. grones
  10. Gronewold
  11. Gronewolds

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