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English
Etymology
From amaze + -ful.
Adjective
amazeful (comparative more amazeful, superlative most amazeful)
- (archaic) Full of amazement; astonished.
1614–1615, Homer, “The Twenty-fourth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volume II, London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC, pages 249–250, lines 7–11:[B]ats with breasts and wings / Clasp fast the walls, and each to other clings, / But, swept off from their coverts, up they rise / And fly with murmurs in amazeful guise / About the cavern; […]
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