Meanings
- archaiccomparativecomparative form of clearly: more clearly
As we go further, we shall see clearlier what to judge of him.
1745, Charles Boyle, Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Æsop, Examin’d, 4th edition, page 293 more examples
Clearlier sings / No bird to its couched corpse: “Into the truth of things— / Out of their falseness rise, and reach thou, and remain!”
1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 73Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still, / Sing truer or no longer sing!
1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods, poem XXXIO 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!
1898, Philip Becker Goetz, “Keats: A fragment”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger & Co., page 31
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