Also -full. [f. WORLD sb. + -FUL.] As much or as many as would fill a world. Chiefly in hyperbolical use.

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1826.  in Kentucky Reporter, 26 Jan., 4/1.

        Two days scarce elapsed—the eggs were most gone,
  (He stopp’d at a ‘worldful’ of houses;)
At last was reduc’d to one—only one,
  So much for the governing spouses.

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1846.  Hare, Mission Comf. (1850), 4. Spiritual food wherewith to feed the whole world through all the generations of mankind, and worldfuls over and above.

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1879.  P. Brooks, Influence of Jesus, ii. 81. That through His sonship this world-full of men is to learn that they are God’s sons.

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1879.  Black, Macleod of D., xxiii. The one small word filled with a whole worldful of light and joy.

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