pangful
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[edit]pangful (comparative more pangful, superlative most pangful)
- (rare, chiefly poetic) Full of pangs; sorrowful, anguishing. [from 18th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDXIX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- More he would have said; but overwhelmed with grief and infirmity, he bowed his head upon his pangful bosom […] .