coldlier

English

Adverb

coldlier

1. (rare) comparative form of coldly: more coldly
   • 1859, Albert Sutliffe, “Our Sister”, in Poems, Boston, Mass., Cambridge, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, page 91:

     There will be care, but she will not know, / There will be winds that will rudelier blow, / And winter snows will coldlier beat, / Yet her rest shall be soft and sweet.

   • 1890 December 31, “Atcha! A Sternutation in Six Explosions. III.”, in Fun, volume LII, number 1338, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 283, column 2:

     “Go,” she said, coldlier, distinctlier than ever she has spoken.

   • 1874 January 10, Mary Prince Story, “Consolation”, in The Commonwealth, 12th year, number 19: 593, Boston, Mass.: Cha[rle]s W. Slack & Son, front page, column 3:

     What if the eyes whose first regards / Met the new rapture of our own, / Looked coldlier on our aging forms; / The heart that beat for us alone // Absorbed in other cares, forgot / The grief of those that loved it most?

   • 1878, Francis Davis, “Caste and Creed”, in Earlier and Later Leaves: or, An Autumn Gathering, Belfast: Allen & Johnston, →OCLC, page 157:

     My neighbour’s weal is weal to me, / If reared not on my ruin! / And though for what I feel or be, / He’d care no more than Bruin, / I’d say, enjoy your silken share— / Yea! as I hope for Heaven; / For Coin and Care a wedded pair / Are six times out of seven! Miss Fortune trips a painted porch, / Too oft in slippery sandal, / Where coldlier glares her gilded torch, / Than Misery’s farthing candle!

   • 1914 November 28, Kay Cleaver Strahan, “Eve’s Uncle Arkady”, in Mark Sullivan, editor, Collier’s: The National Weekly, volume 54, number 11, New York, N.Y., page 12, column 3:

     He looked coldly at Tess. Then he looked coldlier at Sonia, starting with her lovely brown hair and going right down to her pretty slippers and then back up again: “Well, you’re a nice one,” he said at last.

   • 1917, Reginald C[hauncey] Robbins, “To My Boy, on His Migration: I”, in Poems Domestic, Cambridge, Mass.: […] The Riverside Press, page 178:

     For a flare / Of golden covering on every wall / Runs up to meet an evening, lambent glow / Athwart wide-tillaged landscapes: that thy play / May be encompass’d of an indoor day / Forever kindly; though the night may fall / Without, and coldlier stars may come and go.

   • 1940 [1612 January 14], “Thomas Albery to William Trumbull”, in A. B. Hinds, editor, Report on the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Downshire Preserved at Easthampstead Park, Berks (Historical Manuscripts Commission; 75), volumes 4 (Papers of William Trumbull the Elder, January 1613—August 1614), London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, page 14:

     Only if you hear such news as shall give you satisfaction for the general obligation for his Maty., if I may crave it I humbly desire you do impart it to none in those parts before I may speak with your worship lest it be coldlier prosecuted than you think, for some there be that happily will, for their own respects, cross it.

   • 1947–1980, Robert Stock, “The Miracle of the Roses”, in David Galler, Harriette Stock, editors, Selected Poems (1947-1980), Chappaqua, N.Y.: Crane & Hopper, published 1994, →ISBN, page 39:

     The memory we Jews preserve in brine falls longer, coldlier cut than all the shadows across our sanctuaries in ruins.

   • 1960 [1571 September 2], Conyers Read, quoting William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, “French Marriage Projects, 1571-72”, in Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth, London: Jonathan Cape, […], page 62:

     But, finding now that he hath secretly named me for that place, I do coldlier deal therein, knowing both my insufficiency and doubting of the success thereof.