properer
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English
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- (nonstandard) comparative form of proper: more proper
- 1762, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews[1], volume one, chapter IX, first collected edition:
- He was then silent, and began to consider with himself whether it would be properer to make his escape, or to deliver himself into the hands of justice; which meditation ended as the reader will see in the next chapter.
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 128:
- […] she should be able to reason herself into a properer state; […]
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- inflection of proper:
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