softlier
English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]softlier
- (rare, literary, dated) comparative form of softly: more softly
- 2015, Kirilka Stavreva, Words Like Daggers, page 77:
- Admonished that she should “keep the woman's virtue and be more silent,” she countered “that she was 'born in a mill, begot in a kill, she must have her will,' she could speak no softlier.”