Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of near.
  • An obsolete spelling of gnar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Nearer.

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Examples

  • QUOTATION: To kerke the narre from God more farre, 1

    Quotations 1919

  • I loke to the vayle, my spouse I see; now rynneth she awayward, now cummyth she narre, 75

    Quia Amore Langueo Anonymous 1917

  • To Kerke the narre, from God more farre, has bene an old sayd sawe.

    Shepheardes Calendar 1579

  • Det fremhævede er det, der volder størst problemer på den danske højrefløj - andet indlæg gentager en advarsel fra en jødisk gruppe om ikke at lade sig narre af

    _Politik 2009

  • The French attend very much to the purity and elegance of their style, even in common conversation; insomuch that it is a character to say of a man qu’il narre bien.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • In their opinion, he belonged to that goodly class of persons, who, having by hook or by crook, contrived to spend an hour in the Abbe of Weimar’s presence, afterwards abused the sacred narre of pupil.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • GLOSS: nere] nearer; yede] went; hett] promised; waite] take heed; baite] enticement, nourishment; in fere] together; dawngerouse] difficult of approach, haughty; farre] farther; narre] nearer

    Quia Amore Langueo Anonymous 1917

  • Eccles.tom. ix.p. 719,) Apres tout, ce narre de Sozomene est si honteux, pour tous ceux qu'il y mele, et surtout pour Theodose, qu'il vaut mieux travailler a le detruire, qu'a le soutenir; an admirable canon of criticism!] [Footnote 47: I can only be understood to mean, that such was his natural temper when it was not hardened, or inflamed, by religious zeal.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765

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