a. Obs. [f. WRAKE sb.1 + -FUL. Cf. WRACKFUL a.1, WREAKFUL a.]

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  1.  Vengeful; = WRACKFUL a.1

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a. 1225.  [implied in WRAKEFULLY].

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c. 1480.  Henryson, Test. Cres., 329. Ane wraikfull sentence geuin on fair Cresseid.

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  2.  Of persons: Revengeful, vindictive.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter xvii. 51 (E.). Leser min be niht and dai Fra mi faes wrakeful [v.r. wrathful] are.

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  3.  ? Wicked; sinful.

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c. 1310.  in Wright, Lyric P., iv. 23. This wrakeful werkes under wede in soule soteleth sone.

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  4.  Sc. Destructive.

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c. 1625.  Bisset’s Rolment (S.T.S.), I. 22. Evin in this act, thow rearest a Monument That all the spyte of wraikfull tyme out faces.

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  Hence † Wrakefully adv., vengefully. Obs.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 364. Wule God so wrakefuliche awreken him upon sunne?

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a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 2047 (Royal MS.). Hu wrakefulliche [Cott. MS. wrakeliche] wenestu wule he ant wreððe uppon þe, wrecche!

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