Momentful

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    As much as can be experienced in a moment.

    "...and it seemed to the girl that the whole wide church with its dimness, and consoling poverty (that half assured her its God was indeed the God of the poor) was filled with the faint susurration of moving lips, a momentful of sorrow cupped from the day-long stream of sorrow that flowed endlessly into this humble church of the outcast, the abandoned, the oppressed, and flowed seaward away into the boundless memory of God"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to or characteristic of a moment

    "Our unit mite of care and trivialness, And frozen staidness and frigidity; On what shall quickly prove a confluence Of bosom ferment; yea, rack'd seas of thought, A universe of momentful concern."

  2. 2
    Synonym of momentous.

    "Take that momentful night when WMAL-TV made its baptism into the ether."

Example

More examples

"Our unit mite of care and trivialness, And frozen staidness and frigidity; On what shall quickly prove a confluence Of bosom ferment; yea, rack'd seas of thought, A universe of momentful concern."

Etymology

From moment + -ful.

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