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  • adjective comparative form of peaceful: more peaceful

Etymologies

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peaceful +‎ -er

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Examples

  • And he said, “Four-and-twenty hours now; and a more peacefuller end was never seen, and to lament was sinful; but he was blessed if he could help it.”

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • I've always claimed that there's no peacefuller person than I am in this whole neighborhood.

    The Tale of Buster Bumblebee Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • There is no employment quieter, peacefuller than that of a clerk in a haberdashery.

    The Voice in the Fog Harold MacGrath 1901

  • I don't know as I'm what you'd call any more believin ', but when I've laid till after midnight with my eyes as wide open as daylight, and no shut to 'em, thinkin' and worryin 'and coughin', I've seen it ag'in, jest the way he rolled and tossed that night, and then them words come to him, and he smiled and went to sleep peacefuller nor any child; and so _I've_ said

    Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

  • She motioned me to be still, and set down by me, and begun to whisper, and said we could all be joyful now, because all the symptoms was first-rate, and he'd been sleeping like that for ever so long, and looking better and peacefuller all the time, and ten to one he'd wake up in his right mind.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • Sundays of the Roman week dawned upon an activity at the neighboring cab-stand no peacefuller and not much gayer than the silence and solitude of the mornings previous.

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

  • It is peacefuller now than I have known it for days and days and days.

    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) Mark Twain 1872

  • She motioned me to be still, and set down by me, and begun to whisper, and said we could all be joyful now, because all the symptoms was first-rate, and he'd been sleeping like that for ever so long, and looking better and peacefuller all the time, and ten to one he'd wake up in his right mind.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last Mark Twain 1872

  • She motioned me to be still, and set down by me, and begun to whisper, and said we could all be joyful now, because all the symptoms was first-rate, and he'd been sleeping like that for ever so long, and looking better and peacefuller all the time, and ten to one he'd wake up in his right mind.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

  • It is peacefuller now than I have known it for days and days and days.

    Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

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