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matterful, a.|ˈmætəfʊl|
[f. matter n.1 + -ful.]
Of a book, an author, or the like: Full of ‘matter’ or substance.
1819Lamb Lett. x. To Wordsworth 97 From thence I turned to Vincent Bourne; what a sweet, unpretending, pretty-manner'd, matterful Creature. 1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 147 In sweet and matterful verse. 1887Sat. Rev. 3 Sept. 337 The cheap little collection..called the ‘Bibliothèque utile’, seldom admits numbers which are not ‘matterful and factful’, as some singular people say.
Hence ˈmatterfulness.
1883–4Grosart Nashe's Wks. I. Introd. 45 One is struck with their terseness and matterfulness. |