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Webster 1913 Edition
Worser
Wors′er
,Adj.
Worse.
[R.]
Thou dost deserve a
worser
end. Beau. & Fl.
From
worser
thoughts which make me do amiss. Bunyan.
A dreadful quiet felt, and,
Than arms, a sullen interval of war.
worser
farThan arms, a sullen interval of war.
Dryden.
☞ 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.