wreckful

[ rek-fuhl ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. causing wreckage.

wreckful

/ ˈrɛkfʊl /

adjective

1. poetic.
   causing wreckage

Word History and Origins

Origin of wreckful¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; wreck + -ful

Example Sentences

I saw that whilst I had imagined my 'mountain to stand strong,' it was yet heaving with the wreckful fire.

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A great library, therefore, does not merely transmit the memory of the past; it is daily providing memory for the future, safe preserved “against the wreckful siege of battering days.”

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O how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?

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“Fair as morning beam, although the fairest far, Giving to horror grace, to danger pride, Shine martial Faith, and Courtesy’s bright star, Through all the wreckful storms that cloud the brow of War.”

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On a sandy stretch of seashore, half hidden by the unwieldy empires around it, we see a timid, peaceful little people called the Hebrews; they alone, from all that mighty company, have stood the "wreckful siege" of thirty centuries.

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