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murnival

murnival is the rare spelling of mournival.

Meaning of mournival

Noun

mournival (plural mournivals)

  1. (obsolete) In the game of gleek, and other card games, a set of four cards of the same face value.
    • Before George, there's not enough to rig out a Mournival of VVhores: they'l think me grown a meer Curmudgeon. Mercy on me, how will this glorious Trade be carri'd on, with ſuch a miſerable Stock!1677 (date written), John Dryden, The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley, and M[ary] Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 37
  2. (archaic, broadly, rare) A set of four people or things; a quartet.
    • It was, as we shall have occasion to emphasize, not an accidental circumstance that the terror-novel was in the fullest flush of popularity during the seventeen-nineties, and it was also in this decade that Mrs. Radcliffe wrote and published her most characteristic works, A Sicilian Romance, 1790...1964 [1938], Montague Summers, “The Romantic Feeling” (chapter I), in The Gothic Quest, Russell & Russell, page 56

Forms of murnival

pluralmurnivals

Questions about murnival

What is murnival the rare spelling of?
Murnival is the rare spelling of mournival.

Words near murnival in the dictionary

  1. murmurs
  2. Murnane
  3. Murnanes
  4. Murngic
  5. Murngin
  6. murnival
  7. murnivals
  8. murnong
  9. murnongs
  10. Murnungin
  11. Muro

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