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prower

prower is the comparative form of prow.

Meaning of prow

Adjective

prow (comparative prower, superlative prowest)

  1. (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant.
    • For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about prower

What is prower the comparative form of?
Prower is the comparative form of prow.

Words near prower in the dictionary

  1. prowde
  2. prowdly
  3. prowed
  4. Prowell
  5. Prowells
  6. prower
  7. Prowers
  8. Prowers County
  9. prowess
  10. prowessed
  11. prowesses

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