Definition of "woful" []

• Obsolete spelling of woeful. (adjective)

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• "Kidd makes much of a Miltonic allusion that he perceives in "woful" as spoken by Buck Mulligan."
• "But in pre-Rose versions, John Milton's spelling of "woful" was a recurrent motif sounded most poignantly as Stephen Dedalus leads his class through a recitation of "Lycidas" in the second chapter:"
• "(Mr. Rose's meddling with Joyce's use of the Miltonic "woful" has reverberated all the way to Beijing where translator Sylvan Nathans noticed I had called Stephen Dedalus the "woful lunatic.""