Meanings
- comparativecomparative form of dear: more dear
Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, / A dearer birth than this his love had brought, / To march in ranks of better equipage
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 32”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
- comparativecomparative form of dearly: more dearly
Those lines that I before have writ do lie, / Even those that said I could not love you dearer
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 115”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
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