clearlier
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Adverb edit
clearlier
- (archaic) comparative form of clearly: more clearly
- 1745, Charles Boyle, Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Æsop, Examin’d, 4th edition, page 29:
- As we go further, we shall see clearlier what to judge of him.
- 1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 73:
- Clearlier sings / No bird to its couched corpse: “Into the truth of things— / Out of their falseness rise, and reach thou, and remain!”
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods, poem XXXI:
- Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still, / Sing truer or no longer sing!
- 1898, Philip Becker Goetz, “Keats: A fragment”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger & Co., page 31:
- O poet whom Apollo taught to sing / And gave the lyre antique whose muted string / Sang never clearlier than at thy sweep / Of hand the bright, deep, mighty thanes asleep / In memory and long forgot, arise / And visit with thy rare, immediate eyes, / Thy diadem of sky, thy robing air, / Thy throne of earth, and hear thy granted prayer, / The sea, awaited minstrel of thy court, / Before thee eloquently echoing / Thy long desire!