wailful
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Adjective
wailful (comparative more wailful, superlative most wailful)
- (chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
- Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye [...].
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, First Folio 1623:
- You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4: