Meaning of teenful | Babel Free

Definitions

Full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious

archaic, dialectal, obsolete, poetic

Examples

“O, whither tends the lamentable spite Of this world's teenful apprehension, Which understands all things amiss, whose light Shines not amidst the dark of their dissension?”

“Ne'er the sun might see Me bare who now with bloodshot eyes And teenful heart and cheeks how wan, Gathering bread in beggar's guise, From door to door must wander on.”

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