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tearful, a.|ˈtɪəfʊl|
[f. tear n.1 + -ful.]
1. Full of tears; weeping; lachrymose.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1598) 372 My Pyrocles said she (with tearefull eyes and pittifull countenance). 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 28 Sory and fearefull, yea penitent and tearefull. 1726Pope Odyss. xxi. 233 With tear full eyes o'er all their master gaz'd. 1855H. Martineau Autobiog. ii. (1877) 30 The old folks and their daughters came out to meet us, all tearful and agitated. 1884Mem. Pr. Alice 16 The parting was tearful, but full of hope.
2. Causing tears; mournful, melancholy. ? Obs.
c1611Chapman Iliad xix. 315 Then the warre, was tearefull to our foe, But now to me.
Hence ˈtearfully adv., in a tearful manner, with tears; ˈtearfulness, the state of being tearful.
1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 37 (1822) I. 296 A breathing tearfulness. 1835Lytton Rienzi i. i, Anxiously and tearfully he looked..up the steep ascent of the Aventine. 1863Monsell Hymn, ‘O worship the Lord’ iv, Mornings of joy..for evenings of tearfulness. |