springful

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Definition of springful

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Pertaining to the season spring; springlike; vernal.
    “...as when the warm southwest wind comes up breathing kindness from the sea, unheralded, suspected, when the earth is in her saddest frost, and on the instant all the lands are thawed and opened to the genial influences of a sweet springful whisper— so thawed his heart, and the seed which had lain dormant in its fertile soil sprang up, grew, ripened, and brought forth an abundant harvest.”
    “The vivid disarray that woodlands feel As trim dead Winter steals away On the first warm springful day.”
    “Amidst a springful sunny bliss Nor you, nor I, none else, Only the pigeons shining.”
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adj

  1. Pertaining to the season spring; springlike; vernal.
    “...as when the warm southwest wind comes up breathing kindness from the sea, unheralded, suspected, when the earth is in her saddest frost, and on the instant all the lands are thawed and opened to the genial influences of a sweet springful whisper— so thawed his heart, and the seed which had lain dormant in its fertile soil sprang up, grew, ripened, and brought forth an abundant harvest.”
    “The vivid disarray that woodlands feel As trim dead Winter steals away On the first warm springful day.”
    “Amidst a springful sunny bliss Nor you, nor I, none else, Only the pigeons shining.”

noun

  1. As much as lasts or is produced in the spring.
    “A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October.”
    “The palanquin was at once love's veena and a creeper shining with a springful of flowers;”
    “Amidst a world whistling Not with summery wind But radiating a springful Of deathly atoms.”
  2. As much as flows in a spring (of water).
    “The dipping of a spoon into a springful of water.”

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Etymology

From spring + -ful.

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