Definition of Abrupter

1. Adjective. (comparative of abrupt) ¹

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Definition of Abrupter

1. abrupt [adj] - See also: abrupt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abrupter

abrook
abrooke
abrooked
abrookes
abrooking
abrooks
abrosia
abrosias
abrotanum
abrotanums
abrotine
abrotines
abrupt
abrupt cessation
abrupted
abrupter (current term)
abruptest
abrupting
abruptio placentae
abruptio placentarum
abruption
abruptiones placentarum
abruptions
abruptly
abruptly-pinnate
abruptly-pinnate leaf
abruptness
abruptnesses
abrupts
abs

Literary usage of Abrupter

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

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"K, cool and self-possessed, repeated his abrupter ejaculations in more delicate, round-about fashion. „ »,-™nt> who has come back in a brown billycock ..."

2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"They are uplifted in imagination, but their fancy takes shorter and abrupter flights, and they are easily diverted by what is extravagant and preposterous. ..."

3. The Old Red Sandstone, Or, New Walks in an Old Field: To which is Appended a by Hugh Miller (1892)
"Almost all mountain chains present their abrupter escarpements to the sea, though separated from it in many instances by hundreds of miles — a consequence, ..."

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