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worser
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worser, a.
Worse. [1913 Webster]
" This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs occasionally in the best authors, although commonly accounted a vulgarism. It has, at least, the analogy of lesser to sanction its issue. See Lesser . “The experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen associates, by choice or circumstance, peculiarly teaches.”" Hallam.
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"Thou dost deserve a worser end."
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"From worser thoughts which make me do amiss."
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"A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far
Than arms, a sullen interval of war." [1913 Webster]
Than arms, a sullen interval of war." [1913 Webster]
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