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wealthful, a. Now rare.|ˈwɛlθfʊl|
[f. wealth + -ful.]
Abounding in wealth; † happy (obs.), rich, prosperous; conducive to wealth. † wealthful of, abounding in.
13..Cursor M. 641 (Gött.) Þis is a stede of welthful wone. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. lviii. (1495) 509 Though Flaundres be lityll in space yet it is welthfull of many specyall thynges and good. Ibid. xvii. clvi. 707 In good and fatte grounde growyth good eere in grete quantytee and welthfull of greynes. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys, Christina 4 A cyte..Weldful and ful off werldly solas. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 211 This man..at ye sa welthfull mak. 1513More Rich. III, Wks. 38/1 All is..quiete, and likelie righte wel to prosper in wealthful peace under youre coseyns. 1534― Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1235/2 God hauynge manye mancions, and al wonderfull wealthfull in his fathers house. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 20/2 All things necessarie for the wealthfull state of man. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad 464 Malacca's castled harbour here survey, The wealthful seat foredoom'd of Lusian sway. 1883R. Broughton Belinda iii. vi, It is a lovely rain,..healthful, wealthful, beneficent.
Hence † ˈwealthfully adv., † ˈwealthfulness.
c1450tr. Boeth. de Consol. i. met. vii., MS. Bodl. Auct. F. 3. 5, lf. 220 b, Gladnes in hauynge of worldely welthefulnes. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 206 To leve ay in welthfulnes. 1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. ii. ii. (1592) N 8, To lead thy life wealthfully. |