Smiteful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Smiteful is an adjective meaning Inclined toward smiting.
Meaning
Inclined toward smiting.
Example Sentences
Although there is no evidence that Taylor's is a vengeful, smiteful god, either.
The authors of the Old Testament were people like us and struggled with their own human desires about the kind of God they would like to have, a God, perhaps, whose power would be sympathetic to me and 'smiteful' to those unsympathetic to me.
And one hopes the tornado passes overhead and does not touch us; one prays and wonders why God would particularly care to spare us and hopes, again, that all His reasons for not doing so, though perhaps justified, will not matter and that He will not be as smiteful and as bloodthirsty as He ordinarily appears when one hears of His activity once a week on Sunday.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include smitten, resentful, spiteful, sullen, slaughterous, preyful.
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