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adjectivesplenitive (comparative more splenitive, superlative most splenitive)
comparative more splenitive · superlative most splenitive
- obsoletesplenetic
For though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]1 more example
Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian — not splenitive or rash[…]
1892, Thomas Nelson Page, The Old South: Essays Social and Political
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