Definition of "coldlier"

There will be care, but she will not know, / There will be winds that will rudelier blow, / And winter snows will coldlier beat, / Yet her rest shall be soft and sweet.

1859, Albert Sutliffe, “Our Sister”, in Poems, Boston, Mass., Cambridge, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, page 91

“Go,” she said, coldlier, distinctlier than ever she has spoken.

1890 December 31, “Atcha! A Sternutation in Six Explosions. III.”, in Fun, volume LII, number 1338, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 283, column 2

What if the eyes whose first regards / Met the new rapture of our own, / Looked coldlier on our aging forms; / The heart that beat for us alone // Absorbed in other cares, forgot / The grief of those that loved it most?

1874 January 10, Mary Prince Story, “Consolation”, in The Commonwealth, 12th year, number 19: 593, Boston, Mass.: Cha[rle]s W. Slack & Son, front page, column 3

My neighbour’s weal is weal to me, / If reared not on my ruin! / And though for what I feel or be, / He’d care no more than Bruin, / I’d say, enjoy your silken share— / Yea! as I hope for Heaven; / For Coin and Care a wedded pair / Are six times out of seven! Miss Fortune trips a painted porch, / Too oft in slippery sandal, / Where coldlier glares her gilded torch, / Than Misery’s farthing candle!

1878, Francis Davis, “Caste and Creed”, in Earlier and Later Leaves: or, An Autumn Gathering, Belfast: Allen & Johnston, page 157

He looked coldly at Tess. Then he looked coldlier at Sonia, starting with her lovely brown hair and going right down to her pretty slippers and then back up again: “Well, you’re a nice one,” he said at last.

1914 November 28, Kay Cleaver Strahan, “Eve’s Uncle Arkady”, in Mark Sullivan, editor, Collier’s: The National Weekly, volume 54, number 11, New York, N.Y., page 12, column 3

For a flare / Of golden covering on every wall / Runs up to meet an evening, lambent glow / Athwart wide-tillaged landscapes: that thy play / May be encompass’d of an indoor day / Forever kindly; though the night may fall / Without, and coldlier stars may come and go.

1917, Reginald C[hauncey] Robbins, “To My Boy, on His Migration: I”, in Poems Domestic, Cambridge, Mass.: […] The Riverside Press, page 178

Only if you hear such news as shall give you satisfaction for the general obligation for his Maty., if I may crave it I humbly desire you do impart it to none in those parts before I may speak with your worship lest it be coldlier prosecuted than you think, for some there be that happily will, for their own respects, cross it.

1940 , “Thomas Albery to William Trumbull”, in A. B. Hinds, editor, Report on the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Downshire Preserved at Easthampstead Park, Berks (Historical Manuscripts Commission; 75), volumes 4 (Papers of William Trumbull the Elder, January 1613—August 1614), London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, page 14

The memory we Jews preserve in brine falls longer, coldlier cut than all the shadows across our sanctuaries in ruins.

1947–1980, Robert Stock, “The Miracle of the Roses”, in David Galler, Harriette Stock, editors, Selected Poems (1947-1980), Chappaqua, N.Y.: Crane & Hopper, published 1994, page 39

But, finding now that he hath secretly named me for that place, I do coldlier deal therein, knowing both my insufficiency and doubting of the success thereof.

1960 , Conyers Read, quoting William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, “French Marriage Projects, 1571-72”, in Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth, London: Jonathan Cape, […], page 62