fireful

comparative more fireful · superlative most fireful

1. nonstandarduncommonFieryFirst known use 19th c.

   Then ſhall his fireful ſpirit melt, and The mild enjoyments it can never know; […]

   1808 May 29, T. Gent, “Poetic Sketches”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 78, page 428

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   I met a doctor rolling up His wild and fireful eyes, His lofty brow was clouded o'er With an impression wise;

   1901, Eugene Field, “We Are Seven”, in A Little Book of Tribune Verse, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 224

   Horrible, the fateful figure, steadying itself against Old Winter, who was having the first real look in. Hatless it was, and coatless. With shirt all but torn away, and horribly smeared. With hollow eyes burning the dead face up. Fireful eyes, that scorched all they touched. That touched all, in a slow, laborious search of the throng.

   1997 [1929], Cherry Wilson, “The Wallflower” (chapter XV), in Thunder Brakes, Firecrest Publishing Limited, page 164

   I see the misery one can come to be- this is beyond the orangered clichéd version of purgatory- straight into the chambers of death- harsh waters, harsh airs- fireful stares- trouble-trash-dirt and filth.

   2008, Christine Soltis, Pathways to the Maze, […], page 141