earnful
adjEtymology From earn + -ful, from earn (“to yearn”).
1
Obsolete Full of anxiety or yearning.
- Hereat the prince of prowess […] did groaning fetch a deep and earnful sigh.1633, Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogues:
adj
Etymology From earn + -ful, from earn (“to yearn”).
Obsolete Full of anxiety or yearning.
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