wiselier

English

Adverb

wiselier

  1. (archaic) comparative form of wisely (adverb): more wisely
    • 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 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
      Gonzalo. […] you have spoken truer than you purposed.
      Sebastian. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
    • 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Duty surviving self-love’ in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, 1828, Volume 2, p. 77,
      O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed,
      While, and on whom, thou may’st – shine on!
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