stormful

English

Etymology

From storm +‎ -ful.

Adjective

stormful (comparative more stormful, superlative most stormful)

  1. (archaic) Abounding with storms; stormy.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Solemn League and Covenant”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 44:
      From Brittany to Burgundy, on most Plains of France, under most City-walls, it is a blaring of trumpets, waving of banners, a Constitutional manœuvering: under the vernal skies, while Nature too is putting forth her green Hopes, under bright sunshine defaced by the stormful East; like Patriotism victorious, though with difficulty, over Aristocracy and defect of grain!

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