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museful

American  
[myooz-fuhl] / ˈmjuz fəl /

adjective

Archaic.
  1. deeply thoughtful; pensive.


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Etymology

Origin of museful

First recorded in 1610–20; muse + -ful

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Thus museful rode the Tyrant, princely plumed, To his high seat upon the sacred rock: And Solon, blank beside his rule, resumed The meditation which that passing mock Had buffeted awhile to sallowness.

From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

Forever smiling thro' its season brief, The one in glory and the one in grief: Forever painting to our museful sight, How lowlihead and loveliness unite.

From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith

The museful, meditative spirit passes from one object of its wonder to another, and finds, at every pause it makes, that science is as strenuous in forbidding as in satisfying enquiry.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

She was sitting in her own apartment in a museful posture.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

She led him, in museful silence, At once through the open door, And his hope grew bright, like a fairy light, That flickered and danced before!

From Recitations for the Social Circle by James Clarence Harvey

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