dureful
English
Etymology
Adjective
dureful (comparative more dureful, superlative most dureful)
- (obsolete) long-lasting; enduring
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- dureful Brass
Related terms
References
- “dureful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “† Du·reful, a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 724, column 3: “[f. Dure v. + -ful.]”