wreckful
Adjective
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Adjective
wreckful
- (poetic) Causing wreckage; ruinous.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 65”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634 ↗:
- O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
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