grimful

adj

adj

Etymology From Middle English grimful, grymfull, from Old English grimfull (“fierce, terrible”), equivalent to grim (noun) + -ful.

Characterised by grimness; harsh, wrathful, terrible.

And fist, sledge-hammer like; nor grimful face […]1860, Charles Campbell, History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia, page 545:
The greatest favour grimful Death can show Is with swift dart to expedite the blow.1870, Thomas Roscoe, The Works of Jonathan Swift:

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