Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fit; becoming.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Fit; becoming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
Suitable ,appropriate .
Etymologies
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From due + -ful.
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Examples
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If the cosmos is against might, if the sun wars not with the planets but retires at dueful time to give the stars their little sway, what avails our mailed fist?
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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If the cosmos is against might, if the sun wars not with the planets but retires at dueful time to give the stars their little sway, what avails our mailed fist?
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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