Meanings
adverb
- comparativedatedliteraryrarecomparative form of brightly: more brightly
But brightlier on the Rock it play'd
1912, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Circassian's Love-Chaunt' in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Clarendon Press, page 10511 more example
Clement, Augustin, Origen, Burnt brightlier towards their setting-day
1922, Thomas Hardy, 'An Ancient to Ancients' in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, Macmillan, page 284
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