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lealer

lealer is the comparative form of leal.

Meaning of leal

Adjective

leal (comparative lealer, superlative lealest)

  1. (Scotland) Loyal, honest.
    • Mr Toots, like the leal and trusty soul he was, stopped the cabriolet in a twinkling, and told Susan Nipper of his commission, at which she cried more than before.1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
  2. (Scotland) True, genuine.
    • The lealest lover time can show, / Doomed for a lady-love to languish, / Among these solitudes doth go, / A prey to every kind of anguish.1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “In which are Continued the Refinements wherewith Don Quixote Played the Part of a Lover in the Sierra Morena”, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman...

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What is lealer the comparative form of?
Lealer is the comparative form of leal.

Words near lealer in the dictionary

  1. leaky buckets
  2. leaky gut syndrome
  3. leaky rectified linear unit
  4. leaky weir
  5. leal
  6. lealer
  7. lealest
  8. Lealholm
  9. leally
  10. lealness
  11. lealties

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