remissful
English edit
Etymology edit
From remiss (adjective) + -ful.
Adjective edit
remissful (comparative more remissful, superlative most remissful)
- Inclined to remit punishment; clement, lenient.
- 1605, Michael Drayton, “The First Booke of the Barons Warres”, in Poems: […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, […], published 1613, →OCLC, stanza 11, page 5:
- [T]he heauens in their remisfull doome, / Tooke thoſe beſt lou'd from vvorſer dayes to come.
Further reading edit
- “remissful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.