Obs. [f. WRECK sb.3 + -FUL. Cf. WRACKFUL a.1, WRAKEFUL a., WREAKFUL a.] Full of, manifesting or taking, revenge; marked or characterized by vengeance.
1557. North, trans. Gueuara’s Diall Pr., IV. xvii. (1568), 158. Perforce my self dooth straine the wreckfull gods, vouch saue it doo not so.
1601. W. T., Ld. Remy’s Civ. Consid., 36. If a man haue to deale with some manner of men which are wreckfull, of a strange nature, hard to please.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 709. The Earle in wreckfull displeasure … laid his Castle even with the ground.
