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Definition of Dernful
1. a. Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful.
Definition of Dernful
1. Adjective. (obsolete) secret; hence, lonely, sad, mournful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dernful
1. solitary [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dernful
Literary usage of Dernful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by Arthur Henry Bullen (1903)
"... man and beast afraid : The birds of ill presage this luckless chance foretold
By dernful noise; and dogs with howling made man deem Some mischief was at ..."
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