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changeful, a.|ˈtʃeɪndʒfʊl|
[f. change n. + -ful.]
Full of change, greatly given to change; changing, variable, inconstant. (Chiefly poetic.)
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. iv. 99 When we will tempt the frailtie of our powers, Presuming on their changefull potencie. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 565 The changeful Temper of the Skies. a1704T. Brown Sat. agst. Wom. Wks. 1730 I. 55 Woman, that various and that changeful thing. 1798Southey To a Friend, &c., The changeful April day. 1852Keble Chr. Year., 6th Sund. aft. Epiph., The changeful year.
Hence ˈchangefully adv., ˈchangefulness.
1857G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingst. x, The gleams from the great burning logs lighted up..the polished walnut panels so changefully. 1777Boswell Johnson II. 582, I complained of a wretched changefulness, so that I could not preserve..the same views. 1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xvii. 227 A day was coming when..this sad world was to put off for ever its changefulness. |