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Definition of Balefulness
1. Noun. The quality or nature of being harmful or evil.
Generic synonyms: Evil, Evilness
Attributes: Maleficent
Derivative terms: Baleful, Baleful, Maleficent, Mischievous
Antonyms: Beneficence
Definition of Balefulness
1. n. The quality or state of being baleful.
Definition of Balefulness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being baleful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Balefulness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balefulness
Literary usage of Balefulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... But that their bliss he turn'd to balefulness: Their groves he fell'd; their
gardens did deface; Their arbors spoil; their cabinets suppress; ..."
2. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1905)
"... he tarried in the towns, and but trifling balefulness, — Proud and insolent
with wine — how out-wearied I 30. Often must outstay on the ocean-path! ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1887)
"In the poets the fatal gift is of course as much exaggerated as the deadliness
of owls' hootings or the balefulness of toad's ..."
4. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"Little then does he believe who life's pleasure owns, While he tarried in the
towns, and but trifling balefulness, — Proud and insolent with wine —• how ..."
5. The Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns by Thomas Chalmers (1900)
"... would be most intent on the destruction of a system that so nips the best
promises of spiritual cultivation and under the balefulness of whose shadow ..."
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