brightlier
English edit
Adverb edit
brightlier
- (rare, literary, dated) comparative form of brightly: more brightly.
- 1912, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Circassian's Love-Chaunt' in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Clarendon Press, page 1051:
- But brightlier on the Rock it play'd
- 1922, Thomas Hardy, 'An Ancient to Ancients' in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, Macmillan, page 284:
- Clement, Augustin, Origen,
- Burnt brightlier towards their setting-day
- 1912, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Circassian's Love-Chaunt' in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Clarendon Press, page 1051:
Usage notes edit
- This word is rather rare. More brightly would generally be used instead.