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- adjective
comparative form ofwisely : morewisely
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Examples
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Dante, when he said that God's perfect love created eternal Hell, wrote perhaps wiselier than he knew; for from stray glimpses I have sometimes thought there is a Hell where our souls suffer aeons of intolerable ecstasy and wallow as if for ever in the utter embrace of Rudra, the sweet and terrible.
Calvin, Dante and eternal Hell Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
The Tempest 2004
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_ You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Can we not see the hand of Providence, all through history, leading men wiselier than they knew?
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He is a large subject; I cannot speak more nor wiselier of him now, nor needs it; his works are true, to blame and praise him, the Siegfried of
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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But the Saxons did wiselier, kept peace and concord amongst themselves, tilling their fields and building anew their cities and castles ....
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Teague and his jade get some just relations of mutual respect, kindly observation, and fostering of each other, learn something, and would carry themselves wiselier, if they were now to begin.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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The telegram will be undelivered, nor will the whistling messenger (wiselier guided than he knows to whistle) be conscious as he walks away of the drawn blind that is pushed aside an inch by a finger and then fearfully replaced again.
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
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You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
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We fill ourselves with ancient learning, install ourselves the best we can in Greek, in Punic, in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
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