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Definition of Merrier

1. merry [adj] - See also: merry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Merrier

Literary usage of Merrier

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

1. Helping Your Child Learn to Read: With Activities for Children from Infancy by Bernice Cullinan (1993)
"A day or so later, don't be surprised if your child mentions something from a story you've read together. The More the merrier From time to time, ..."

2. Our Old Home, and English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1912)
"Our host is a very jolly man, and the dinner was a merrier and noisier one than any English dinner within my experience. February 8th. — I read to-day, ..."

3. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1840)
"Xenophon, in his Sympos. brings in Socrates as a principal actor ; no man merrier then himself; and sometimes he would gride a cock horse scoffed at him for ..."

4. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1891)
"Our host is a very jolly man, and the dinner was a merrier and noisier one than any English dinner within my experience. February 8th. — I read to-day, ..."

5. The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, and the Rev. William by Horace Walpole, William Mason (1851)
"... more the merrier. I remember five years ago that mad woman who works in wax told me when I went to her raree show " that if there was a God and a ..."

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