wrackful

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wrackful

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From Middle English wrakeful, wrakful, equivalent to wrack + -ful. See also wrake.

adjective more wrackful · most wrackful

ruinous; destructive. As it happened, his destiny, aided by this opportunity, carried him far beyond, so that the new era in his political fortunes which opened amidst the wrackful confusion in which Liberalism found itself in 1874 and the years immediately following must be accounted the most important and fateful of al

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@misc{wrackful_2026,
  title = {wrackful},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wrackful},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}