Plainful
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 As much as a plain contains.
"The world is found bowing before his seat (Rev. ii. 13); as Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-nego stood erect amidst a plainful of prostrate “peoples, nations, and languages,” so the man “not of the world even as” his Master was not, stands erect, exceptional, singular, to be in consequence cast into the furnace for his disconformity."
- 1 Full of lamentation. archaic
"Mark, O, ye beauties l—gay, and young, Mark the plainful woes, and weeping, That, from forc'd concealment sprung, Punish the sin of secret keeping."
- 2 Plain; obvious.
"So plainful clear to me, it followed as the night the day."
Example
More examples"Mark, O, ye beauties l—gay, and young, Mark the plainful woes, and weeping, That, from forc'd concealment sprung, Punish the sin of secret keeping."
Etymology
From plain + -ful.
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