Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Warlike.
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Examples
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MALVEAUX: Who is denouncing Christianity when it's warful?
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Peace can come only when mankind abandons warful preparation.
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Minerva, so she said to Ulysses, "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, stop this warful strife, or Jove will be angry with you."
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868
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It's interesting to think that some technology had already existed, such as airplanes, but WW1 was the first time they were used for warful purposes, while other technologies were invented as a direct result of the war, like tanks, which were conceived as a way of overcoming the deadlocked trench positions of the western front.
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Morkret Miry or Smud, Brunt and Rubbinsen, make sunlike sylp om this warful dune’s battam.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Laertes, stop this warful strife, or Jove will be angry with you.”
The Odyssey 1900
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