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comparative more groanful, superlative most groanful
(obsolete) agonizing; painful quotations
Adowne he kest it with so puissant wrest, / That backe againe it did aloft rebownd, / And gaue against his mother earth a gronefull sownd.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 42