a. Obs. or dial. Forms: see TEEN sb.1 [OE. téonful, ME. teneful, f. TEEN sb.1 + -FUL.] Full of ‘teen’: see TEEN sb.1

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  1.  Causing trouble or sorrow; vexatious, troublesome, painful, grievous, distressing.

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c. 1000.  Ags. Ps. (Spelman), lxxvii. 10. Mægþ teonful, generatio exasperans.

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a. 1023.  Wulfstan, Hom., I. (1883), 273. Hu læne and hu lyðre þis lif is, hu sarlic and hu sorhful and hu ʓeswincful and hu teonful.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter lxxviii. 8. Þat þai ne be als þar fadres fals, Getynge wik and tene-fulle als.

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1340–70.  Alisaunder, 282. Hee made a uery uow auenged too beene Of þat teenefull tach þat hee tooke þere.

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c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 2666. Ȝe grettli aren a-greued … For þise tenful trauayles.

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c. 1425.  Cast. Persev., 1755, in Macro Plays, 129. Teneful talys I may þee sey.

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Teenful, troublesome; vexatious.

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  b.  Harmful, injurious.

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  (In first quot. perh. Lamentable, deplorable: cf. 1.)

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1340–70.  Alex. & Dind., 566. Many men vp-on molde made hue by slithe To haunte hure in hordom … Of hure tenful tach ȝe taken ensample.

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a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 3907. Wild berys … With ilka tenefull tothe as tyndis of harowis.

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  2.  Angry, wrathful; malicious, spiteful.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 4585. Þer þreo & fifti scipen … In þa teonfulle sæ torneden sæiles.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 12252. Þen Thelamon was tenfull, & turnyt into yre.

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1570.  Sat. P. Ref., xiii. 89. O Teinfull tratouris! Ibid. (1572), xxxii. 97. O tenefull Tyrane!

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  b.  Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, grieved, sad.

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1387–8.  T. Usk, Test. Love, II. v. (Skeat), I. 49. O bad and straite been thilke, that at their departyng, maketh men teneful and sorie.

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14[?].  Siege Jerus., 213. Ac without tribute or trewes tenfulle wyes, Þe knyȝtes with þe kerchef comen ful blyue.

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  Hence † Teenfully adv. Obs., sorrowfully, sadly, lamentably, grievously; harmfully, injuriously; angrily, wrathfully.

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13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., B. 160. Greuing, and gretyng, and gryspyng harde Of teþe tenfully to geder.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 272. He askyde me tyrauntly tribute of Rome, That tenefully tynt was in tyme of myne elders.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 12233. Than Thelamon … tenfully spake … all in grym yre.

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., xvi. 56. Free men ar his thrall full teynfully torne.

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