Definition of "dreadfull" [dreadfull]

• Archaic spelling of dreadful. (adjective)

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• "The following year, one day after Congress endorsed the Declaration of Independence, John Adams wrote hopefully that greater hardships—for Americans—would ensue: It may be the Will of Heaven that America shall suffer Calamities still more wasting and Distresses yet more dreadfull."
• "Is it Anne who in a different poem dies unknown of herself, "dazed with dreadfull face"?"
• "Drum, and all the dreadfull paraphernalia of noise and death."