remissful
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From remiss (adjective) + -ful.
Adjective[edit]
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[icholas] Ling, →OCLC, stanza 11, page 5:
- [T]he heauens in their remisfull doome, / Tooke thoſe beſt lou'd from vvorſer dayes to come.
Further reading[edit]
- “remissful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.