• Dearer

    Adjective

    1. dearer

      (comparative of dear)
      • '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: — William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXII

    Adverb

    dearer
    1. dearer

      (comparative of dearly)
      • Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
        Even those that said I could not love you dearer — William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXV
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