Meaning of gaolful | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated spelling of jailful.

Commonwealth

Examples

“Besides, when Dr. Martineau compares Christ’s substitution to the substitution of a noble citizen in the room of gaolfuls of felons, he excites a prejudice against the Atonement by a false analogy.”

“It is impossible to picture civilised, stable, progressive government in the country, side by side with military occupation, gaolfuls of prisoners, periodical destruction of transport⟳, and the ever present⟳ fear of the assassin.”

“‘We like⟳ the longer-servers, with the one offence behind them—that is,’ she said to me, ‘your poisoners, your vitriol-throwers, your child-murderers, that the magistrates have⟳ turned kind on and kept from the rope. Had we a gaolful of such women, we might send⟳ our matrons home and let⟳ the convicts lock⟳ themselves up.[…]’”

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