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English
Etymology
From remiss (adjective) + -ful.
Adjective
remissful (comparative more remissful, superlative most remissful)
- Inclined to remit punishment; clement, lenient.
1605, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The First Booke of the Barrons Warres”, in Poems: , London: [Valentine Simmes] for N Ling, →OCLC, stanza 11, page 5:he heauens in their remisfull doome, / Tooke thoſe beſt lou'd from vvorſer dayes to come.
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