fairlier

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A form of fairly — In a fair manner; fair; not biased or skewed or favouring a certain party.

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Meanings

adverb
  1. archaiccomparativerarecomparative form of fairly: more fairly

    No man could carve out leafage and beasts fairlier than Lavrans, but with men’s semblances he had never been over happy.

    1927, Sigrid Undset, translated by Charles Archer, “Debtors”, in The Cross, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, published 1929, →OCLC, page 142
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    Bel[linda]. Pray where got you your Learning then? / Heartf[ree]. From other Peoples Expence. / Bel[linda]. That’s being a Spunger, Sir, which is ſcarce honeſt; if you’d buy ſome Experience with your own Mony, as ’twould be fairlier got, ſo ’twould ſtick longer by you.

    1698, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok’d Wife: A Comedy. As It Is Acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: […] Richard Wellington […]: And are to be Sold by Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, act III, page 28

    Dear Christ, who knew’st sweet Honour’s art, / And clad’st humanity, / E’en fairlier than my proud heart / Though craveth it to see / More beautiful—more, more divine / Life’s purpose, ere at knighthood’s shrine / I kneel and vow, and make it mine.

    1877, Walter Rew, “[Appendix.] The Heart’s Sabbath.”, in Dion: A Tragedy; and Poems, London: Trübner and Co., →OCLC, page 223

    The sun, when setting fairly on this land, / Dawns fairlier still upon some alien strand, / And I, as this world’s shape of me lies dead, / Perchance shall sail into the golden West, / Within a spirit ship, at Death’s behest, / And see, Columbus-like, new worlds ahead.

    1896, Gordon Bottomley, “Death”, in The Mickle Drede and Other Verses, Kendal, Cumbria: […] T. Wilson, […], →OCLC, page 69
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