Strifeful. World English Historical Dictionary

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a. Forms: 4 strifful, 5 stryffule, -fulle, 6 strifull, strivefull, stryf(f)ul(l, 6–8 strifefull, 8– strifeful. [f. STRIFE sb. + -FUL.] Full of strife; contentious.

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1382.  Wyclif, Ecclus. viii. 14. Stonde thou not aȝen the face of the strifful.

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14[?].  in Walter of Henley’s Husb., etc. (1890), 148. That in no wyse be in the householde, men debatefulle or stryffulle.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. ii. 12. Her list in strifull termes with him to balke. Ibid. (1591), M. Hubberd, 1021. Th’ Ape was stryfull, and ambicious.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., I. 102. Nor Swords, nor Arms were yet:… nor strifefull Trumpets sound.

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1726.  Pope, Odyss., XXI. 410. Eumæus, thus incourag’d, hastes to bring The strife-full bow.

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a. 1835.  Wordsw., Misc. Sonn., II. ‘Four fiery Steeds.’ Soldiers … sick at heart of strifeful Christendom.

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1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 762/2. We are no apologists for the violence committed … in those strifeful days.

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1890.  W. Morris, in Eng. Illustr. Mag., July, 762. They are a strifeful race.

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