Definition of Plainer

1. Adjective. (comparative of plain) ¹

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Definition of Plainer

1. plain [adj] - See also: plain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plainer

plain to see
plain turkey
plain wanderer
plain weave
plainant
plainants
plainchant
plainchants
plainclothed
plainclothes
plainclothes man
plainclothes men
plainclothesman
plainclothesmen
plained
plainer (current term)
plainest
plainful
plaining
plainings
plainish
plainland
plainlands
plainlike
plainly
plainness
plainnesses
plains
plains-wanderer
plains-wanderers

Literary usage of Plainer

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

1. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Chancery of New-York by William Johnson, New York (State), Court of Chancery (1873)
"plainer, being suspected of forgery, was prosecuted for certain forgeries, and convicted and sentenced to the state prison; that the pretended deed from ..."

2. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"In plainer words, I determined to be guided by the one higher motive of which I was certain, the motive of serving the cause of Laura and the cause of Truth ..."

3. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"As they cannot be put in plainer and better language, and as they bear intimately on the theory I пате hazarded, I will quote them verbatim and in ..."

4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... scant to rise espy'd; But mighty bulwarks fence the plainer part: So art Helps nature, nature strengthened art. When our eye some prospect would pursue, ..."

5. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1801)
"metaphorical bombast. we gladly sit down to more temperate diet, and although to plainer, by far more invigorating fare. The present volume, with all its ..."

6. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Chancery of New-York by William Johnson, New York (State), Court of Chancery (1873)
"plainer, being suspected of forgery, was prosecuted for certain forgeries, and convicted and sentenced to the state prison; that the pretended deed from ..."

7. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"In plainer words, I determined to be guided by the one higher motive of which I was certain, the motive of serving the cause of Laura and the cause of Truth ..."

8. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"As they cannot be put in plainer and better language, and as they bear intimately on the theory I пате hazarded, I will quote them verbatim and in ..."

9. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... scant to rise espy'd; But mighty bulwarks fence the plainer part: So art Helps nature, nature strengthened art. When our eye some prospect would pursue, ..."

10. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1801)
"metaphorical bombast. we gladly sit down to more temperate diet, and although to plainer, by far more invigorating fare. The present volume, with all its ..."

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