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Etymology

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link +‎ -ful

Adjective

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linkful (comparative more linkful, superlative most linkful)

  1. Containing links.
    • 1845, Nimshi: the adventures of a man to obtain a solution of scriptural geology:
      I, of course, felt obliged for the disinterested concern, which both he and the spirits evinced towards my hermitical circumstances; yet, I as instantly mounted the Rostrum, that the intellectual anchorage which retained him might not be weighed, and that the linkful chain of ideas might not be broken between myself and the spiritual agents around me.
    • 2003, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Semantics: Discourse and dynamics, page 373:
      If S„ is a linkful sentence, the hearer is instructed to move to another address b before proceeding to enter the information carried by S„.
    • 2011, Matthias Irmer, Bridging Inferences:
      In Left Dislocations, the detached phrases are links: “they have the 'aboutness' feeling typical of linkful structures and satisfy the poset relation condition on preposed phrases” (Vallduví, 1992, p. 109).