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English
Etymology
From Middle English teneful, from Old English tēonful, tēonfull (“grievous; vexatious; troublesome; woeful”), equivalent to teen + -ful.
Adjective
teenful (comparative more teenful, superlative most teenful)
- (poetic, dialectal, archaic or obsolete) Full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious
1612, William Shakespeare, A Funeral Elegy:O, whither tends the lamentable spite Of this world's teenful apprehension, Which understands all things amiss, whose light Shines not amidst the dark of their dissension?
1922, Reynold A. Nicholson, Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose - Page 91:Ne'er the sun might see Me bare who now with bloodshot eyes And teenful heart and cheeks how wan, Gathering bread in beggar's guise, From door to door must wander on.
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