Hypertext Webster Gateway: "worser"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Worser \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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