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spleenful

Shakespearean Definition:

Adjective - Full of spleen; passionate, irritable, angry

Frequency: 2

Here are all of the speeches where spleenful shows up across the corpus:

Henry VI, Part 2


It is reported , mighty sovereign ,
That good Duke Humphrey traitorously is murdered
By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort’s means .
The Commons , like an angry hive of bees
That want their leader , scatter up and down
And care not who they sting in his revenge .
Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny ,
Until they hear the order of his death .

Titus Andronicus


Farewell , my sons . See that you make her sure .
Ne’er let my heart know merry cheer indeed
Till all the Andronici be made away .
Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor ,
And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower .