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threatful, a.|ˈθrɛtfʊl|
[f. threat n. + -ful.]
Full of threats; threatening.
c1557Abp. Parker Ps. E iij, The thretfull warninges of the judgement. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. (1623) 582 By their threatfull letters. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 129 A threatful and agile whirl of his staff. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 6 Not the threatful Law of Moses,..but the royal Law, the perfect Law of liberty. 1895G. MacDonald Lilith viii. 53 The eagle, perched with outstretched wings on the top, appeared threatful. 1922E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxxi. 391, I have read signs in heaven: nought clear, but threatful unto both you and me. 1923M. Sadleir Desolate Splendour 199 He felt a desire still further to ingratiate himself with this threatful lord. 1932W. Faulkner Light in August ii. 42 It still lingers about her..something dark and outlandish and threatful.
Hence ˈthreatfully adv., threateningly.
1565Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 50 S. Austen thretfully proficied, that, if they would not take peace..with their brethern, they should receaue..warre from their enemies. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 190 [A] flaming Semiter (threatfully held against him). 1822Hood Lycus vi, The spirits of sin..that..threatfully warr'd with the light. |