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English
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Etymology
From Middle English gastful, equivalent to ghast + -ful. See ghastly.
Adjective
ghastful (comparative more ghastful, superlative most ghastful)
- (archaic) Causing fear; terrifying.
1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros:Very desolate was that valley, having a dark aspect and a ghastful, such as a man might look for in the infernal glens of Pyriphlegethon or Acheron.
- (archaic) Terrified, frightened.
1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament attempted in verse, page 13:Th' Almighty anſwers — "I my ſelf will place
"The dreadful Stains of Murther on the Face,
"That all may ſhun thy Crimes and Fate. — He ſaid,
The Caitiff heard, with ghaſtful Looks he fled.
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