a. [f. STORM sb. + -FUL.] Abounding in or subject to storms; tempestuous, stormy. lit. and fig. (A favorite word with Carlyle.)

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1558.  Phaër, Æneid, VIII. (1562), B b iij. Store of strugling wynds & stormful clouds of cloddid raine.

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1591.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. v. 576. From jeopardy Of stormfull Seas.

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a. 1756.  Collins, Superstit. Highlands, 67. They know what spirit brews the stormful day.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. V. xi. This Camp of Twenty-thousand, could it be other than of stormfullest Sansculottes?

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1883.  J. Payn, Kit, xxxii. To shape his thoughts in less vehement and stormful fashion.

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  Hence Stormfully adv., Stormfulness.

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1831.  Carlyle, Sartor Res., II. iii. With a stormfulness … under which the boldest quailed. Ibid., III. viii. We … haste stormfully across the astonished Earth.

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1904.  M. Maclean, Lit. Celts, xviii. 350. A hundred and sixty years pass stormfully by.

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