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moanful, a.|ˈməʊnfʊl|
[f. moan n. + -ful.]
1. Full of moaning or lamentation; expressing lamentation or grief. Said of a person, his actions, etc., hence of a melody, song, etc., plaintive, mournful, sad. Now somewhat rare.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1598) 83 Now ceasse we to wearie the hearers With monefull melodies, for enough our griefes be reuealed. Ibid. iv. (1629) 414 But in such monefull march, they went towards the other Shepheards. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. i. iv, He saw a monefull sort of people. a1677Barrow Wks. (1686) II. 483 Do not (saith S. James) grudge (or make moanfull complaint) against one another. [Cf. quot. a 1677 under moanfully adv.] 1714Gay Sheph. Week, Past. iii. 26 Sparabella..Did this sad Plaint in moanful Notes devise. 1837Carlyle Misc. Ess., Diam. Neckl. (1840) V. 104 He..sobbing out the moanfulest broken howl, sank down in swoon. 1855Fraser's Mag. LI. 95, I sang upon the linden like a moanful nightingale.
†2. Fraught with or causing lamentation. Obs.
1573Twyne æneid xii. Nn iij, And houses to deface, and monefull mariages to make. a1660Hammond Wks. (1684) IV. 580 Look upon all the sad moneful objects in the world. 1662Hickeringill Apol. Distressed Innoc. Wks. 1716 I. 314 'Tis a sad Conscience that can joy at the thoughts of this days moanful Remembrance.
Hence ˈmoanfully adv.
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 189 Monefully she would sit, dayes without words. a1677Barrow Wks. (1687) I. 286 Do not (saith S. James) moanfully complain one against another. [Cf. James v. 9 Μὴ στενάζετε κατ' ἀλλήλων.] |