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Webster 1913 Edition
Fletiferous
Fle-tif′er-ous
,Adj.
[L.
fletifer
; fletus
a weeping (from flere
, fletum
, to weep) + ferre
to bear.] Producing tears.
[Obs.]
Blount.
Definition 2024
fletiferous
fletiferous
English
Adjective
fletiferous (comparative more fletiferous, superlative most fletiferous)
- (obsolete, rare) Producing tears.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blount to this entry?)
- 1887, Andrew Magnus Fleming, Winklebach's Hotel
- The poor servant placed a handkerchief to her eyes and began to weep, for Dolly's arrogance toward her proved fletiferous.
- Thomas Stone, Frontier Experience
- […] notwithstanding his fletiferous crocodility, he maintained the most astounding adiophory and ataraxy.