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than

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Than is a grammatical particle analyzed as both a conjunction and a preposition in the English language . It introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it measures the force of an ...

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Than \Than\, adv. Then. See Then . [Obs.] --Gower. Thanne longen folk to gon on pilgrimages. --Chaucer.

Usage examples of than.

Weavers had been responsible for the practice of killing Aberrant children for more than a hundred years.

I that the high families would sooner see an Aberrant on the throne than a Weaver.

An Aberrant whose Aberration made her better than those who despised her.

And he has to answer for much more than aiding and abetting you with your plot to fool the old man.

The conflict, grown beyond the scope of original plans, had become nothing less than a fratricidal war between the young king and the Count of Poitou for the succession to the Angevin empire, a ghastly struggle in which Henry was obliged to take a living share, abetting first one and then the other of his furious sons.

UNMIK, with European Union assistance, did intervene - in setting up institutions and abetting economic legislation - it has done more harm than good.

The name of his partially duped accomplice and abettor in this last marvelous assault, is no other than PHILIP LYNCH, Editor and Proprietor of the Gold Hill News.

So that meseems thou mayest abide here in a life far better than wandering amongst uncouth folk, perilous and cruel.

For I spake with thee, it is nigh two years agone, when thou wert abiding the coming of our Lady in the castle yonder But now I see of thee that thou art brighter-faced, and mightier of aspect than aforetime, and it is in my mind that the Lady of Abundance must have loved thee and holpen thee, and blessed thee with some great blessing.

Hutchinson has little leisure for much praise of the natural beauty of sky and landscape, but now and then in her work there appears an abiding sense of the pleasantness of the rural world--in her day an implicit feeling rather than an explicit.

But for the most part, the kisses the men bestowed upon the customers were deeper than Abie would have considered appropriate after a first date.

And even if he were to relapse into the same heresy which he had abjured, he would still not be liable to the said penalty, although he would be more severely punished than would have been the case if he had not abjured.

He was accounted a Master of Sorcere, the only Baenre so recognized other than old Gromph himself, and was reputed to be an abjurer of some skill.

But, as it was, he ably supported the exposed flank that Johnston so skillfully attacked, won the battle, inflicted losses a good deal larger than his own, and gained his ulterior objective as well as if there had not been a fight at all.

On this now leaped and twisted a more indescribable horde of human abnormality than any but a Sime or an Angarola could paint.