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suspectful, a. Now rare or Obs.|səˈspɛktfʊl|
[f. suspect n.1 + -ful.]
†1. Having regard or respect for something; mindful of. Obs. rare—1.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) I. 159/2 He willeth him..to be sollicitous for his soule, and suspectfull of the houre of his death.
2. Full of suspicion; inclined to suspect; mistrustful; = suspicious 2.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1912) 317 In whom the innate meanes will bring forth ravenous covetousnes, and the newnes of his estate, suspectfull cruelty. 1611Second Maiden's Trag. i. i, Thei'd lyu'de suspectfull still, warnde by their feares. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 21 Alwaies emulous and suspectfull of her. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 59 To include the whole Nation..under such a diffident and suspectfull prohibition. 1682Otway Venice Preserved iii. ii, Our good Fortune Has..Strengthen'd the fearful'st, charm'd the most suspectful. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. xiv, The most suspectful, unimpulsive, and ungenerously-disposed of all natures.
†3. Exciting or deserving suspicion; = suspicious 1. Obs. rare.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xxiii. (1632) 59 Spare no powder, which would serve as a gratification toward these suspect⁓full troupes. 1641Milton Reform. i. Wks. 1851 III. 30 The dangerous and suspectfull translations of the Apostat Aquila. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 47 Nothing could make France more suspectfull to England than the addition of those Countreyes.
Hence suˈspectfulness, proneness to suspicion.
1872Lever Ld. Kilgobbin v. (1875) 37 The half-suspectfulness of one not fully assured of what he was listening to. |