mere
adjective
being nothing more nor better than.
mear
-
a variation of
mere.
Example Sentences
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I understand his fears but l also think the mear fact that we could be in danger for something like that is why we had to do it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
"Consider weel, gude mon, We hae but borrowed gear, The horse that I ride on, It is John Murray's mear."
From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles
"There's sma sorrow at our pairting," as the auld mear said to the broken cart.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
He lay in the treviss wi' the mear, and wad na come oot.
From Short Stories Old and New by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith
But for ganging to Carloisle, he's dead foundered, man, as cripple as Eckie's mear.'
From Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
