Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
near .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Nearer.
- adverb [Obs.] never the nearer; no nearer.
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Examples
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I my selfe on a time stode nerre hym, when after diner he called out a boie as he was wõt to do, as I trow ten yere olde.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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You may not rarely meet with persons of enfeebled frames, or sedentary habits, who, suddenly rising from continued readings or intense thought, have, by the irregular and vacillating movement communicated by the effort to tlie brain, and optic nerre, perceived repeated gleams of light flashings around ihein.
The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the ... Samuel Stanhope Smith 1812
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