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† ˈearnful, a. Obs. exc. dial.
[app. a var. of yearnful; for the relations between the two forms cf. earn v.3]
Anxious, full of longing desire; sorrowful. Hence ˈearnfully adv.
[a1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 22 Eornfullness [v.r. ᵹeornfullnes] þisse worulde. ]c1500Noble Lyfe ii. lxxxix, He cryeth eurnefulli ho, ho! 1575T. Rogers Sec. Coming Christ 47/1 Their woofull cries..their earnefull plaintes. 1581J. Studley Seneca's Hercules Œt. 191 b, Philomele..earnefully did mone Her tender Itis death. 1587T. Hughes Arthur iv. ii. in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 323 A deep and earnful sigh. 1596Lodge Marg. Amer. 136 Weeping piteously in so erneful manner. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. v. viii. The earnful smart Which eats my breast. 1875Parish Sussex Gloss., Ernful, sad, lamentable. |
