"yearnful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English yernful, ȝeornful, from Old English ġearnfull, ġeornful (“desirous, eager, zealous, diligent, anxious”), equivalent to yearn + -ful.",
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          "ref": "1570, Richard Edwards, “Damon and Pithias”, in A select collection of old English plays, Volume 4, page 43:",
          "text": "So now lend me thy yearnful tunes to utter my sorrow.",
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          "text": "Ah! they were grand days, those deep, full days, when our coming life, like an unseen organ, pealed strange, yearnful music in our ears, and our young blood cried out like a war-horse for the battle.",
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          "text": "I am yearnful to know who was the unhappy person the wicked general threatened.",
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        "Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing."
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