fairlier

English

Adverb

fairlier

1. (rare) comparative form of fairly: more fairly
   • 1697, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok’d Wife: A Comedy, as It Is Acted at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: […] J[ames] O[rme] for R[ichard] Wellington, […], and Sam[uel] Briscoe […], →OCLC, act III, page 30:

     Bell[inda]. Pray where got you your Learning then? / Heartfr[ee]. From other Peoples Expence. / Bell[inda]. That’s being a Spunger, Sir, which is ſcarce honeſt; if you’d buy ſome Experience with your own Mony, as ’twould be fairlyer got, ſo ’twould ſtick longer by you.

     • 1698, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok’d Wife: A Comedy. As It Is Acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: […] Richard Wellington […]: And are to be Sold by Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, act III, page 28:

       Bel[linda]. Pray where got you your Learning then? / Heartf[ree]. From other Peoples Expence. / Bel[linda]. That’s being a Spunger, Sir, which is ſcarce honeſt; if you’d buy ſome Experience with your own Mony, as ’twould be fairlier got, ſo ’twould ſtick longer by you.

   • 1877, Walter Rew, “[Appendix.] The Heart’s Sabbath.”, in Dion: A Tragedy; and Poems, London: Trübner and Co., →OCLC, page 223:

     Dear Christ, who knew’st sweet Honour’s art, / And clad’st humanity, / E’en fairlier than my proud heart / Though craveth it to see / More beautiful—more, more divine / Life’s purpose, ere at knighthood’s shrine / I kneel and vow, and make it mine.

   • 1896, Gordon Bottomley, “Death”, in The Mickle Drede and Other Verses, Kendal, Cumbria: […] T. Wilson, […], →OCLC, page 69:

     The sun, when setting fairly on this land, / Dawns fairlier still upon some alien strand, / And I, as this world’s shape of me lies dead, / Perchance shall sail into the golden West, / Within a spirit ship, at Death’s behest, / And see, Columbus-like, new worlds ahead.

   • 1927, Sigrid Undset, translated by Charles Archer, “Debtors”, in The Cross, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, published 1929, →OCLC, page 142:

     No man could carve out leafage and beasts fairlier than Lavrans, but with men’s semblances he had never been over happy.