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- adjective Archaic form of
baleful .
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Examples
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Comme heare the balefull [10] dome of Robynne of the Dale.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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He cast about, and searcht his balefull bookes againe.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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In balefull [43] dole their faces be ywreene [44].
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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And while too, this partial system of Education is spreading its influence in a balefull manner in our country, by destroying that happy equilibrium of our constitutions, equality, which it was the pride and glory of our fathers to establish and which should be our rich inheritance to maintain.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I Charles Lee 1908
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Hewyng on eache other, whyle they myghte dree, with many a balefull brande.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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But when I feele the bitter balefull smart, which her fayre eyes vnwares doe worke in mee: that death out of theyr shiny beames doe dart,
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Whose balefull barking bringes in hast pyne, plagues, and dreery death.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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756: Our balefull newes, and at each words deliuerance
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1013: With balefull weedes, and precious Iuiced flowers,
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3.38.92: Should cause reuenger hand deal balefull blowes.
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