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  • adjective obsolete comparative form of prow.

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Examples

  • The had more money, more prestige, more experience, more influence and more prower.

    Clinton supporters tell her: 'It's an honor, Madame President!' 2008

  • Marriage -- a deed so prow, never a prower was dared?

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • We know this is an area which in many ways bore the brunt of the storm in terms of the prower of the storm surge.

    KFDM.com Breaking News : News 2008

  • We know this is an area which in many ways bore the brunt of the storm in terms of the prower of the storm surge.

    KFDM.com Breaking News : News 2008

  • Yesterday after a discussion with my sister about her losing prower in Houston we decided that I would move south and find lodging so she and our mon couls come down until the power was restored.

    confabulation 2008

  • Now it fortuned that he heard one night from a certain of his nocturnal reciters [FN#5] that among women are those who are doughtier than the doughtiest men and prower of prowess, and that among them are some who will engage in fight singular with the sword and others who beguile the quickest-witted of Walis and baffle them and bring down on them all manner of miseries; wherefore said the Soldan, "I would lief hear this of their legerdemain from one of those who have had to do with it, so I may hearken unto him and cause him discourse."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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