mildlier

English

Adverb

mildlier

  1. comparative form of mildly: more mildly
    • 1895, William Wilkins, Songs of Study‎[1], page 52:
      Will mildlier o'er the deepening green,
    • 1899, Robert Louis Stevenson, ‎Lloyd Osbourne, ‎Sidney Colvin, The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson‎[2], page 401:
      …but I conceive the kingdom of the Muses mildlier mannered…
    • 1877, Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries‎[3], page 389:
      …and that first, mildlier, when the king came to the gates in April 1642…
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