"freeër" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{head|en|comparative adjective}} freeër
  1. (rare) comparative form of free: more free Tags: comparative, form-of, rare Form of: free (extra: more free)
    Sense id: en-freeër-en-adj-MxYnxsev Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1914, A. Heringa, Freetrade and Protectionism in Holland, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Adelphi Terrace, pages 2 and 6",
          "text": "[…]transit-duties were lowered with 50 percent and other measures were taken in the interest of a freeër trade and commerce.[…]“More than ever”, so ran a declaration of the government of 1849, “the want of such measures (for freeër trade) is evident”.",
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          "ref": "1918, Otto Rothfield, With Pen and Rifle in Kishtwar, Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., pages 117–118",
          "text": "Their authority and the scale of religious values on whose fanciful basis it rests, while they can still persuade people to regard them as valuable realities, can be maintained and confirmed only by the exclusion of that freeër intelligence and that critical comparison which become active on contact with the Gentiles.",
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          "ref": "1919, Annual Administration Report on the Working of Cooperative Societies, page 36",
          "text": "The enforced curtailment of Honorary Organizers’ travelling is the step which has been the main cause of inefficiency and in my opinion the first opportunity should be taken to allow of freeër travelling and inspection by these gentlemen.",
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          "text": "Now for a piece of good luck – I go to lectures by Gilbert Murray twice a week, on Euripides ‘Bacchae’. Luckily I have read the play before and can therefore give him a freeër attention:[…]",
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