tombful

English

Etymology

From tomb +‎ -ful.

Noun

tombful (plural tombfuls or tombsful)

1. Enough to fill a tomb.
   • 1860, Jason Lewis, “The Primitive Gospel”, in The Anastasis of the Dead: or, Philosophy of Human Immortality, as Deduced from the Teachings of the Scripture Writers, in Reference to “The Resurrection.”, Boston, Mass.: A. Tompkins, page 281:

     And seeing that he immediately adds, “It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, who told these things to the apostles,” he therefore seems to say that all the women he had mentioned,—perhaps several tombfuls of them,—were within the tomb on the same occasion, and all at the same time; and that they all saw the two angels standing among them, &c.

   • 1963 April 8, Betty Penson, “Idaho Tourists View: Treasures of Egyptian Kings”, in The Idaho Daily Statesman, 99th year, number 257, Boise, Ida., page six:

     Most Egyptian Kings spent their lifetimes amassing tombsful of treasures to keep them comfortable in their afterlives.

   • 1984 April, Oliver Lowenbruck [pen name; David J. Schow], “Coming Soon to a Theater Near You”, in The Twilight Zone Magazine, page 61:

     It had been like a tombful of dismembered mannikins, the limbs and parts devoid of viscera; hollow, lifeless surrogates.