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smiteful

smiteful adjective: inclined toward smiting.

Adjective

smiteful (comparative more smiteful, superlative most smiteful)

  1. Inclined toward smiting.
    • The authors of the Old Testament were people like us and struggled with their own human desires about the kind of God they would like to have, a God, perhaps, whose power would be sympathetic to me and 'smiteful' to those unsympathetic to me.2002, Mark Allen, First Holy Communion, Burns & Oates, →ISBN, pages 8–9
    • Although there is no evidence that Taylor's is a vengeful, smiteful god, either.2010, Karl E. Smith, Meaning, Subjectivity, Society: Making Sense of Modernity, Brill (2010), page 203 (footnote)

Forms of smiteful

comparativemore smiteful
superlativemost smiteful

Origin of smiteful

From smite + -ful.

Questions about smiteful

What does smiteful mean?
Smiteful means inclined toward smiting.
What part of speech is smiteful?
Smiteful is an adjective.

Words near smiteful in the dictionary

  1. smitch
  2. smitches
  3. smite
  4. smite hip and thigh
  5. smited
  6. smiteful
  7. smiter
  8. smiters
  9. smites
  10. smites hip and thigh
  11. smitest

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