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meaner

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meaner

  1. comparative form of mean: more mean
    • Ivanhoe (1952 film)
      Prince John: "Your foe has bloodied you, sir knight. Will you concede defeat? You fight too well to die so mean a death. Will you not throw in your lot with me instead?
      Ivanhoe: "That would be an even meaner death, Your Grace."

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meaner (plural meaners)

  1. One who means or intends something.
    • 2006, M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan Webster, Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse, page 50:
      By his acts of meaning, and those of other individual meaners, the social reality is created, maintained in good order, and continuously shaped and modified.

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