MESTFUL

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ETYMOLOGY
from Latin mæstus sad + -ful

EXAMPLE
From: An English Garner. Elizabethan Sonnets
Intro. by Sidney Lee, Vol. II. Printed ?
Robert Toste. Laura, The Toys of a Traveller: or The Feast of Fancy, 1597
The First Part. P. 374