"Comparative degree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ealdorman, compounded of the comparative degree of the adjective eald, old, and man), a term implying the possession of an office of rank or dignity, and, in modern times, applied to an office-bearer in the municipal corporations and county councils of England and Wales,and in the municipal ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... this public donation could be thus forbidden, whence has Mr. Hastings since learned that he may privately take money, and take it not only from princes, and persons in power, and abounding in wealth, but, as we shall prove, from persons in a comparative degree of penury and distress? that he could take it from persons in office and trust, whose power gave them the means of ruining the people for the purpose of enabling themselves to pay it? Consider in what a situation the Company must be, if the Governor-General ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. X. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... letter. Clum, for climbed, Glossary. "In care of," misuse of c|o for. Coherence, of paragraph; how to gain in paragraph; illustrations of in paragraph; of sentence; of whole composition; words of. Colon. "Comma blunder". Comma. Common gender, defined, of nouns and pronouns. Comparative degree; misuse of, in reference to more than two things. Comparison, degrees of; irregular forms in; errors in; manner of comparing. Complected, for complexioned, Glossary. Complex sentence. Complimentary close, in letters. Compound nouns, explained; rules for forming plurals of. ...
— Practical Grammar and Composition • Thomas Wood
... remembered that, with Macaulay, the praise or blame is usually just and true; he is very rarely grossly unfair and wrong, as Carlyle so often is; and if Macaulay resorts too often to the superlative degree, he is usually entitled to use the comparative degree of the same adjective. ...
— Studies in Early Victorian Literature • Frederic Harrison
... has to be expressed by a circumlocution; as tumaqua aditu ipirrun turreha, what is great beyond all else; bokkia uessa dauria, thou art better than I, where the last word is a compound of dai uwuria of, from, than. The comparative degree of the adjectives corresponds to the intensive and frequentative forms of the verbs; thus ipirrun to be strong, ipirru strong, ipirrubin and ipirrubessabun to be stronger, ipirrubetu and ipirrubessabutu stronger, that ...
— The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations • Daniel G. Brinton |
