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- adjective
comparative form ofurban : moreurban - adjective
comparative form ofurbane : moreurbane
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Examples
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His hard level tone contrasted strongly with the urbaner manner of the admiral.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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So far as he had been a partizan at all in his pictures of life he had sided with the world in its compacter, urbaner phases as against uncivilized crudity and cruelty.
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Later, the mind of the youth perceives that the writer of Jacobs history has a tribal mind and supposes throughout that for the advancement of his tribe many things are permissible and even admirable which a later and urbaner mind rejects as detestably sharp practice.
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Jacob's history has a tribal mind and supposes throughout that for the advancement of his tribe many things are permissible and even admirable which a later and urbaner mind rejects as detestably sharp practice.
On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Why, there hain't no tellin 'how much helpfuler he wuz than common folks, and urbaner.
Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881
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