plainful

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English

Etymology 1

From plain +‎ -ful.

Adjective

plainful (comparative more plainful, superlative most plainful)

  1. (archaic) Full of lamentation.
    • 1780, John Bell, Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays:
      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.
    • 1829, John Keats, The Poetical Works, page 30:
      Beset with plainful gusts, within ye hear No sound so loud as when on curtain'd bier The death-watch tick is stilled.
  2. Plain; obvious.
    • 2012, Arlene Corwin, Circling Around Our Times, Our Culture, page 119:
      So plainful clear to me, it followed as the night the day.
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Etymology 2

From plain +‎ -ful.

Noun

plainful (plural plainfuls)

  1. As much as a plain contains.
    • 1892, The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary:
      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.
    • 1953, The Man From Main Street, page 173:
      The Dutch pictures of old women and cheeses are not less but more heroic and enduring than the eighteenth-century canvases massing a dozen gods, a hundred generals, and a plainful of bleeding soldiers.
    • 1984, Irma Tam Soong, Chinese-American Refugee: A World War II Memoir, page 59:
      Did some mythical giantess in the creation of this earth playfully prepare her desserts by the plainfuls?
    • 2017, R. A. Lafferty, The Fall of Rome:
      The chessboard they played it out on was the region of Arcadia, which has been described as a plainful of mountains.

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