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Meaning of WORSER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Wors"er\, a.
Worse. [R.]
      Thou dost deserve a worser end.          --Beau. & Fl.
      From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. --Bunyan.
      A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a
      sullen interval of war.                  --Dryden.
Note: 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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