warful

comparative more warful · superlative most warful

1. Indicative of war; warlike.

   Hence the long Train of never-ending Jars / Of warful Peaces, and of peaceful Wars, […]

   1733, Paul Whitehead, The State Dunces

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   Sabotage being itself a warful act and carrying its own penalty, would not excuse the original unwarful act nor any subsequent unwarful acts of counter-retaliation.

   1943, Linus R. Fike, No nation alone: a plan for organized peace, page 56

   The similarity of these Indian and Greek tales of far-ranging warful travels should not surprise us: their authors were people of the horse, they rode far in several directions—south, west, east—from their “origins” in the Caucasus region; […]

   2003, Richard Schechner, The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance, page 181