a. [f. FAULT sb. + -FUL.] Faulty, culpable.

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1591.  The Troublesome Raigne of King John (1611), 65.

        Such meteors were the Ensignes of his wrath,
That hast’ned to destroy the faultfull towne.

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1593.  Shaks., The Rape of Lucrece, 715.

        So fares it with this fault-full Lord of Rome,
Who this accomplishment so hotly chased.

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1621.  Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 36. You are the children of men, and like them fault-full.

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1856.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., III. IV. ix. § 4. Much thought and long discussion would be needed before we could determine satisfactorily the limiting lines between virtuous contentment and faultful carelessness.

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1876.  J. Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, A Hymn for all People, 313.

        But, Thy mercy much exceedeth,
As our faultful nature needeth.

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  Hence Faultfully adv., in a faultful manner.

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1859.  Ruskin, Arrows, I. 199. I have been myself faultfully answerable for this too eager hope in your mind.

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