molestful

English

Etymology

molest +‎ -ful

Adjective

molestful (comparative more molestful, superlative most molestful)

1. (obsolete) troublesome; vexatious
   • 1867, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

     " […] Thy mode of speaking makes thee manifest
     ⁠A native of that noble fatherland,
     ⁠To which perhaps I too molestful was."

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     To her nothing already then and thenceforward was anyway able to be molestful for this chiefly felt all citizens except with proliferent mothers prosperity at all not to can be and as they had received eternity gods mortals generation to befit them her beholding

References

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