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smartful

adj

Etymology

From smart + -ful.

  1. derived from *(s)merd-✻
  2. inherited from *smertaną✻
  3. inherited from *smertan✻
  4. inherited from *smeortan✻
  5. inherited from smerten
  6. suffixed as smartful — “smart + ful”

Definitions

  1. painful

    • But this Itch in spite of Morals will be catching, and the beginning natural pleasure will often urge the smartful end, especially in the precipitant Youth, who scarcely sufficiently dread the Fire till they have been savingly burnt.
    • Even the absence alone of fore-gone joy is troublesome; how much more when they wind downward into smartful extremities?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA