acuter

Similarly, the 22 month-long oil scarcity in Nepal has now got far acuter than ever before.

Nepal Government Missing? 2008

Now the oil shortage has become far acuter than it was 22 months ago.

Nepal under regressive mafia rule 2008

The reason is clear: they do not spend their resources on lessening human pain but making it further acuter.

South Asian Perspectives on Global Terrorism 2008

But were our senses altered, and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us; and, I am apt to think, would be inconsistent with our being, or at least well-being, in this part of the universe which we inhabit.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

But of this the great majority have no feeling, but are merely hireling and professorial; except when it occasionally happens that some workman of acuter wit and covetous of honor applies himself to a new invention, which he mostly does at the expense of his fortunes.

The New Organon 2005

But were our senses altered, and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us; and, I am apt to think, would be inconsistent with our being, or at least well-being, in this part of the universe which we inhabit.

God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome.

The Romance of the Forest 2004

"Wait a bit," said the acuter intelligence of Jemmy Vetch.

For the term of his natural life 2004

How one should solve this, is clear: for the word does not mean the same when spoken with an acuter and when spoken with a graver accent.

On Sophistical Refutations 2002

For they solve the difficulty by a change of accent, pronouncing the ou with an acuter accent.

On Sophistical Refutations 2002