yearful

plural yearfuls · plural yearsful

1. The amount that occurs in a year; a year's worth (of something).

   He had three yearsful of news to relate and in it all not a word of discouragement, but enthusiasm for what has already been done and plans for what is yet to be done.

   1904, The Congregationalist and Christian World, page 882

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   This is what I have been saying in these eight and twenty volumes of collected works and in this yearful of newspaper articles, and after a rest it is quite possible I shall go on saying it some more.

   1924, H. G. Wells, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

comparative more yearful · superlative most yearful

1. rareFull of years; elderly; aged.

   Pity the yearful tree, green branches torn, fronting to-morrow's winds because it must.

   1972, Outposts, page 29

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   […] but into the quiet haunts of the yearful ones ye cannot as yet hope for admission.

   1907, The Nation, volume 1, page 929

   […] an encampment of these Sioux, com posed of nearly two hundred persons, of both sexes, and of different ages, from the yearful father of the chief, to his small grand-child, a pappoose of tender years.

   1910, Harry H. Green, The Recognition of Jesse Badleigh, page 106