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  • adjective comparative form of fearful: more fearful

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Examples

  • In the education of his child no man fearfuller, and the danger he fears is a harsh school-master, to whom he is alledging still the weakness of the boy, and pays a fine extraordinary for his mercy.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • He feared that mine host was ill satisfied with the look of the mandolin and that he would climb away again, well warned of his guest's astuteness, into the heights of the ceiling to devise some fearfuller scheme; but he was only looking for the shoulder.

    Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • That were a darker and direfuller destiny, that were a fearfuller, frightfuller fate.

    The Re-echo Club Carolyn Wells 1902

  • That were a darker and direfuller destiny, that were a fearfuller, frightfuller fate!

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • I dunno, I'm sure, whether such a practice wouldn't be considered as more criminal and worthy of a fearfuller punishment than even the shooting at a man's flag and degrading the honour of it.

    The Honour of the Flag 1877

  • Luigi made a rush; Jacob caught them both, but they wriggled out of his clutch, and Luigi, being the fearfuller, ran the farthest.

    Vittoria — Volume 8 George Meredith 1868

  • Luigi made a rush; Jacob caught them both, but they wriggled out of his clutch, and Luigi, being the fearfuller, ran the farthest.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Luigi made a rush; Jacob caught them both, but they wriggled out of his clutch, and Luigi, being the fearfuller, ran the farthest.

    Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Ears are damn'd up with howls and hcUifli One fearful noife a fearfuller confounds.

    The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795

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