dearer
English
Adjective
dearer
- comparative form of dear: more dear
- 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:
- 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
Adverb
dearer
- comparative form of dearly: more dearly
- 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:
- Those lines that I before have writ do lie, / Even those that said I could not love you dearer