a. Now dial. [f. TENT sb.2 + -FUL.] Careful; full of attention.

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c. 1450.  Holland, Howlat, 420. And vthir signess, forsuth syndry I gess, Off metallis and colouris in tentfull atyr.

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1870.  Lady Verney, L. Lisle, vi. 77. He’s a very ’tentful man.

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