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  • adjective superlative form of fearful: most fearful.

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Examples

  • When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.

    Great Expectations 2007

  • Then were they fearfullest, who ere were boldest, and gan to flee exceeding quickly into the water, where wonders are enow!

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • But a moment later and poor Millicent got the fearfullest shock of her life, for right ahead, suddenly without a sound of warning, stark and huge with the moonlight on his great open mouth, appeared the Hound.

    The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • You'd never have seen me, and I a young woman, making whisper-talk with the like of him, and he the fearfullest old fellow you'd see any place walking the world.

    The Tinker's Wedding 1911

  • The Almighty God's made a fine match in the two of you, for if you went marrying a woman was the like of yourself you'd be having the fearfullest little children, I'm thinking, was ever seen in the world.

    The Well of the Saints: A Comedy in Three Acts 1905

  • When at last my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, and in my tightest and fearfullest suit, I was then delivered over to Mr. Pumblechook, who said dramatically: "Boy, be forever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand!"

    Ten Boys from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903

  • It seemed as if the people were fled maliciously just in front, to leave him in this fearfullest of all solitudes.

    The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • This is the fearfullest difficulty for the dog driver on a snow plain without leading marks or objects in sight.

    Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

  • When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.

    Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

  • (I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.) When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.

    Great Expectations 1860

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