deedful
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From deed (adjective) + -ful.
Adjective
[edit]deedful (comparative more deedful, superlative most deedful)
- Full of deeds or exploits; active, stirring.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “To—, after Reading a Life and Letters”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, →OCLC, page 300:
- But you have made the wiser choice, / A life that moves to gracious ends / Thro' troops of unrecording friends, / A deedful life, a silent voice: […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deedful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)