increaseful

comparative more increaseful · superlative most increaseful

1. archaicrareabundant in produce; fruitful

   To cheare the Plowman with increasefull crops

   1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC

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   […] by mans helpe, industrie, and labour, it [the earth] becommeth more rich, fertile, and increasefull

   1599, Richard Linche, The fountaine of ancient fiction, London: Adam Islip, page M iii

   […] indeed, it [the soil] becomes generative, so to speak, and increaseful.

   1857 May 21, “Inundations in France”, in Morning Post, number 26018, London, page 3

   When England crowned her centuries of cumulative crime against Ireland, hounding to death or expatriation her best and ablest sons, for the increaseful crime of their nativity, she used similar machinery.

   1880, William C. Patterson, Fitz John Porter, Philadelphia: E. Stern & Co., pamphlet reprinted from Penn Monthly April 1880, page 22