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English
Etymology
From dire + -ful.
Adjective
direful (comparative more direful, superlative most direful)
- Fearful, terrible.
1594, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, 2nd edition, London: Richard Field, , →OCLC, [verse 17], lines :I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :"As whence the sun gins his reflection, shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break."
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