clearlier

English

Adverb

clearlier

  1. (archaic) comparative form of clearly: more clearly
    • 1745, Charles Boyle, Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Æsop, Examin’d, 4th edition, page 29:
      As we go further, we shall see clearlier what to judge of him.
    • 1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], OCLC 1049435282, page 73:
      Clearlier sings / No bird to its couched corpse: “Into the truth of things— / Out of their falseness rise, and reach thou, and remain!”
    • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods, poem XXXI:
      Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still, / Sing truer or no longer sing!
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