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strifeful, a.|ˈstraɪffʊl| Forms: 4 strifful, 5 stryffule, -fulle, 6 strifull, strivefull, stryf(f)ul(l, 6–8 strifefull, 8– strifeful. [f. strife n. + -ful.] Full of strife; contentious.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. viii. 14 Stonde thou not aȝen the face of the strifful. 14..in Walter of Henley's Husb. etc. (1890) 148 That in no wyse be in the howseholde, men debatefulle or stryffulle. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 12 Her list in strifull termes with him to balke. 1591― M. Hubberd 1021 Th' Ape was stryfull, and ambicious. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. 102 Nor Swords, nor Arms were yet:..nor strifefull Trumpets sound. 1726Pope Odyss. xxi. 410 Eumæus, thus incourag'd, hastes to bring The strife-full bow. a1835Wordsw. Misc. Sonn. ii. ‘Four fiery Steeds’, Soldiers..sick at heart of strifeful Christendom. 1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 762/2 We are no apologists for the violence committed..in those strifeful days. 1890W. Morris in Eng. Illustr. Mag. July 762 They are a strifeful race. |