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† ˈstrenger, a. and adv. Obs. Forms: 1 strengra, (strencra, strængra), 3 strengre, 3–5 strenger, 4–5 -ere, 4 strengor. [OE. stręngra (neut. -re):—OTeut. *straŋgizon- compar. of *straŋgo- strong a.] A. adj. Stronger (in various senses: see strong a.).
c888ælfred Boeth. xxiv. §3 We wenað ðæt mon bio þy strencra [Bodl. MS. strængra] þe he bið micel on his lichoman. Ibid. xxxii. §1 Þeah ðu nu wære..strengra þonne leo. a1225Ancr. R. 326 Þe wunde þet euer wurseð an hond, & strengre is forte helen. a1300Cursor M. 4298 Hert o stele, and bodi o brass, Strenger þen euer sampson was. a1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. l. 523 Ofte we seon the strengor falle Thorw him that feblore was. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 8260, I am nat strengere than dauyd was. B. adv. More strongly.
1340Ayenb. 170 Þe ilke þet..is..ine þise viȝtinge: heþ more strenger to done..him-zelue to werie. 1382Wyclif Exod. xxxix. 19 That the coope and the breest broche streyt myȝten be knyt togidere to the girdil, and with rynges strengere cowplid. Hence † ˈstrengerly adv., more strongly.
a1390Prol. Job in Wyclif Bible II. 671 As if thou woldest an eel..holde with streite hondis, how myche strengerli thou thristis, so myche the sunnere it shal sliden awey. |