renownful
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]renownful (comparative more renownful, superlative most renownful)
- (archaic) Having great renown; famous.
- 1606, John Marston, The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedie of Sophonisba:
- To Carthage, Carthage! O thou eternal youth,
Man of large fame, great and abounding glory,
Renownful Scipio, spread thy two-necked eagles,
Fill full thy sailes with a revenging wind, […]
References
[edit]- “renownful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.