Definition of Likelier

1. Adjective. (comparative of likely) ¹

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Definition of Likelier

1. likely [adj] - See also: likely

Lexicographical Neighbors of Likelier

like water
like water off a duck's back
like white on rice
likeability
likeable
likeableness
likeably
liked
likee
likeful
likehood
likehoods
likejacking
likelemba
likeless
likelier (current term)
likelies
likeliest
likelihood
likelihood functions
likelihoods
likelily
likeliness
likelinesses
likely
likely story
likeminded
likemindedness
liken
likened

Literary usage of Likelier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"'And it's likelier,' George answers him, ' that heaven and earth shall pass.' So I'll hear it to my dyin' day —his voice a floatin' down to me from up above ..."

2. The Mission of the Comforter & Other Sermons with Notes by Julius Charles Hare (1846)
"... they who desire a sound Christian interpretation of the Scriptures, bringing out their true meaning in its breadth and depth, will be much likelier to ..."

3. Sermons and Discourses: Now Completed by the Introduction of His Posthumous by Thomas Chalmers (1877)
"Again, it is the lesson both of experience and of the Bible, that the young are likelier subjects for religious instruction than the old. ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Chalmers by Thomas Chalmers (1829)
"A despiser of ordinances is put into a likelier situation for receiving the free offer of the Gospel, by being prevailed upon to attend a church where this ..."

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