a. [f. SONG sb. + -FUL.] Abounding in song; musical, melodious.

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a. 1400.  Prymer (1891), 98. Songful weren to me thi riȝtwesnesses in stede of my pilgrimage.

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1728.  Mallet, Excursion, Wks. 1759, I. 76. So pass the songful hours.

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1782.  W. Stevenson, Hymn to Deity, 14. The songful tenants of the air.

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1836.  New Monthly Mag., XLVIII. 150. Thou lov’st the little songful lyre.

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1844.  Mrs. Browning, Mourning Mother, 55. Trees … That rock to songful sound.

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1885.  S. Cox, Exposit., vii. 86. Why … should we not enter into it and dwell in a songful security?

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  Hence Songfully adv.; Songfulness sb.

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1850.  Kingsley, Misc. (1859), I. 218. An earnest songfulness (to coin a word) which Wordsworth seldom attained.

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1880.  N. Smyth, Old Faiths in New Light, vi. (1882), 218. All things give unto us,… birds of their songfulness; the moon of her silvery light.

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1888.  Sat. Rev., 28 July, 108/2. They crowd into their boats,… and pull songfully towards the Rais.

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