remissful

English

Etymology

From remiss (adjective) +‎ -ful.

Adjective

remissful (comparative more remissful, superlative most remissful)

1. Inclined to remit punishment; clement, lenient.
   • 1605, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The First Booke of the Barrons Warres”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, →OCLC, stanza 11, page 5:

     [T]he heauens in their remisfull doome, / Tooke thoſe beſt lou'd from vvorſer dayes to come.

Further reading

• “remissful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.