earnful

adj

earnful

adj

Etymology 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:

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