Meaning of tombful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a tomb.

Examples

“And seeing that he immediately adds, “It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, who told these things to the apostles,” he therefore seems to say that all the women he had mentioned,—perhaps several tombfuls of them,—were within the tomb on the same occasion, and all at the same time; and that they all saw the two angels standing among them, &c.”

“Most Egyptian Kings spent their lifetimes amassing tombsful of treasures to keep them comfortable in their afterlives.”

“It had been like a tombful of dismembered mannikins, the limbs and parts devoid of viscera; hollow, lifeless surrogates.”

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