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deeper-lying

deeper-lying is the comparative form of deep-lying.

Meaning of deep-lying

Adjective

deep-lying (comparative more deep-lying or deeper-lying, superlative most deep-lying or deepest-lying)

  1. (figuratively, literally) Established at a deep level.
    • […] in the bitterness of his soul he excused himself;—was he not justified in shrinking from the task of telling her, since now she knew the truth she had no impulse to speak to him? But a deeper-lying consciousness that he was in fault made him restless, and the silence between them became...1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXXV, in Middlemarch […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VIII, page 224

Questions about deeper-lying

What is deeper-lying the comparative form of?
Deeper-lying is the comparative form of deep-lying.

Words near deeper-lying in the dictionary

  1. deepening
  2. deepeningly
  3. deepenings
  4. deepens
  5. deeper
  6. deeper-lying
  7. deeper-rooted
  8. deeper-seated
  9. deepest
  10. deepest-lying
  11. deepest-rooted

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