freeër
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: free-er
form: freer
form: freeer
Senses: examples: text: Following this would be the narrative which I should propose to treat in freeër Volkslieder style but I have not the libretto except the descriptive lines ‘approach of St. George’.
ref: 1896 November 30, Edward Elgar, St. George; republished as Jerrold Northrop Moore, editor, Elgar and His Publishers: Letters of a Creative Life, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, →ISBN, page 40:
text: […]transit-duties were lowered with 50 percent and other measures were taken in the interest of a freeër trade and commerce.[…]“More than ever”, so ran a declaration of the government of 1849, “the want of such measures (for freeër trade) is evident”.
ref: 1914, A. Heringa, Freetrade and Protectionism in Holland, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Adelphi Terrace, pages 2 and 6:
text: Their authority and the scale of religious values on whose fanciful basis it rests, while they can still persuade people to regard them as valuable realities, can be maintained and confirmed only by the exclusion of that freeër intelligence and that critical comparison which become active on contact with the Gentiles.
ref: 1918, Otto Rothfield, With Pen and Rifle in Kishtwar, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., pages 117–118:
text: The enforced curtailment of Honorary Organizers’ travelling is the step which has been the main cause of inefficiency and in my opinion the first opportunity should be taken to allow of freeër travelling and inspection by these gentlemen.
ref: 1919, Annual Administration Report on the Working of Cooperative Societies, page 36:
text: Now for a piece of good luck – I go to lectures by Gilbert Murray twice a week, on Euripides ‘Bacchae’. Luckily I have read the play before and can therefore give him a freeër attention:[…]
ref: 1919 January 26, C. S. Lewis, [Letter to Arthur Greeves (University College, Oxford)]; republished as Walter Hooper, editor, They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963), London: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, […], 1979, →ISBN, page 93:
text: I'd (as an Englishman) feel freeër to hate the IRA more, if I didn't know the protastants^([sic]) were't^([sic]) such utter shits every chance they get.
ref: 2000 November 19, Kraits Seeker, “Saburo Sakai (1916-2000)”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025:
text: We are freeër than we have been before, but we are not yet free.
ref: 2001 October 7, ankhor, “The Federal Reserve, this is how the Illuminati enslaved the American People”, in alt.illuminati (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025:
text: I always find that "freer" looks weird, but I suppose it's better than "freeër".
ref: [2009 March 13, James Hogg, “If ever a word needed a hyphen ...”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025:
text: On some rare occasions, though, a trio of identical letters can appear unavoidable and some kind of alteration or compromise is required to circumvent it: seer (one who sees) and freer (more free), for instance, have been forced to lose a letter in order to avoid three consecutive es (although some nineteenth-century editors preferred seeër and freeër).
ref: [2015 April 16, Paul Anthony Jones, Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: comparative form of free: more free