Sterner

adj, name

adj, name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    comparative form of stern: more stern comparative, form-of
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

More examples

""Well, in the first place, I don't think my ideal would speak like that," said she. "He would be a harder, sterner man, not so ready to adapt himself to a silly girl's whim. But, above all, he must be a man who could do, who could act, who would look Death in the face and have no fear of him—a man of great deeds and strange experiences.""

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