verveful

English

Etymology

From verve +‎ -ful.

Adjective

verveful (comparative more verveful, superlative most verveful)

1. Full of verve.
   • 1886, Morris Fuller, “A Biographical Essay on Fuller as a Preacher”, in Pulpit Sparks. Being XIX. Sermons of That Godly and Popular Divine Thomas Fuller, D. D. (The Celebrated Church Historian, 1608-1661), London: Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, page ii:

     Yet, if wit was the stuff of Fuller’s intellectual outfit, and he was quaint and humorous, even grotesque, in his writings, full of quips, quirks, puns, conceits, alliterations, antitheses and anecdote, there was every antecedent probability that what he was at the desk he would be in the pulpit, nay, more, that his splendid faculties and relucent abilities would have warmed under the influence of the public assembly, and sparkle out into verveful coruscations when confronted with a sympathetic audience.

   • 1886 August, “Hunstanton”, in London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation., volume L, number CCXCVI, London, page 126:

     The man in quest of health does not get braced up and invigorated, and often returns home after his fortnight’s excursion desiderating that verveful brightness, that elasticity of step, and that flow of spirits he went in search of.

   • 2003 December 18, Evening Standard, London, page 38:

     A verveful mix of live action and puppetry, the dramatisation promises to be as magical as Phillip Pullman’s magnificent novels.