pangful

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English

Etymology

From pang +‎ -ful.

Adjective

pangful (comparative more pangful, superlative most pangful)

  1. (rare, chiefly poetic) Full of pangs; sorrowful, anguishing.
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      More he would have said; but overwhelmed with grief and infirmity, he bowed his head upon his pangful bosom .