Mineful vs Mindful - What's the difference?
mineful | mindful |
An amount sufficient to fill a mine.
* 1920 , Harry A. Frank, Roaming through the West Indies , Blue Ribbon Books (1920),
(figuratively) A large amount, particularly of something obtained through mining.
* 1892 , Horace Smith, "My Boating Song", in Interludes: Being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses , Macmillan and Co (1892),
* 1990 , , His Little Women , Pocket Books (1991), ISBN 9780671701246, page 185:
* 2008 , James Lear, The Secret Tunnel , Cleis Press (2008), ISBN 9781573443296,
Being aware ((of) something); attentive, heedful.
* {{quote-news
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(obsolete) Inclined (to do something).
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
*:These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].
As a noun mineful
is an amount sufficient to fill a mine.As an adjective mindful is
being aware ((of) something); attentive, heedful.mineful
English
Noun
(en noun)unnumbered page:
- The Americans abandoned what had become a more than useless concession, and to-day a mineful of water, colored with copper sulphates and lapping undetermined streaks of ore, remains the property of the Virgin of Cobre.
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- Oh this earth is a mineful of treasure,
- A goblet, that's full to the brim,
- I had taken all this with a mineful of salt and had not been calling Violet more often.
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- Next came a glittering cloud, all wisps and sparkles, which eventually revealed itself to be Miss Daisy Athensasy in a swansdown-trimmed gown and a mineful of diamonds.
Quotations
*mindful
English
Alternative forms
* mindefull, mindfull (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Alex McLeish, perhaps mindful of the flak he has been taking from sections of the Villa support for a perceived negative style of play, handed starts to wingers Charles N'Zogbia and Albrighton.}}