freakful
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[edit]freakful (comparative more freakful, superlative most freakful)
- (archaic) Full of whims or caprices.
- 1798, Joseph Fawcett, Written on Visiting the Gardens at Versailles:
- Round rolls the stroke with mathematic care,
All centre-bound, exactly circular:
No sportive way it takes, at large and free,
No gambol plays of freakful liberty […]
- 1819, John Keats, Lamia:
- Jove heard his vows, and better'd his desire; For by some freakful chance he made retire From his companions
- 1922, Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery, Lord Chatham: His Early Life and Connections:
- I am Alas for the freakful fate which plays with poor humanity and its concerns!
- 2001, Ganga Prasad Upadhyaya, Vedic culture, page 44:
- If God's actions are of a fortuitous nature, however grand, however glorious, they reduce Him to a mere freakful entity