Meanings
adverb
- archaiccomparativecomparative form of wisely (adverb): more wisely
O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed, While, and on whom, thou may’st – shine on!
1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Duty surviving self-love”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume 2, London: William Pickering, published 1828, page 771 more example
Gonzalo. […] you have spoken truer than you purposed. Sebastian. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]
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