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molestful, a. Now rare.|məʊˈlɛstfʊl|
[f. molest n. or v. + -ful.]
Troublesome, annoying, painful.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 94 In tyme of weir quhen..to karie..kitchine veshels thay thot hauie and molestful. Ibid. vii. 13 Quha suspectet this kuir thairfor to be committit to him that he war nocht molestful to his ȝoung sone Dauid. 1604T. Wright Passions i. ii. 9 Wee have a continuall and molestfull battell with Carnall vices. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 57 Thou oughtest not..to hold it grieuous or molestfull to haue lost thy sight. 1675Woodhead, etc. Paraphr. St. Paul 116 The wicked also shall have a resurrection..to all manner of molestful passibility. 1891C. E. Norton Dante's Hell x. 47 That noble fatherland to which perchance I was too molestful.
Hence † moˈlestfully adv. (Minsheu Sp. Dict. ii. 1599.) |