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lesser
/ˈlɛsɚ/
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What does lesser mean?
adjective
- Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.
- that which is of lesser size, quality, degree, or significance; of lower status, importance, or rank
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlɛsɚ/
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A supply of the omission is one of the lesser instances in which the convention have improved on the model before them.
A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered.
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It was a sort of worship in two steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for Thénardier.
With a lesser stake than a human life at issue, I doubt if we should have attempted that dash to Windsor station.
Only when he came right back to her, leaving his other, his lesser self, as she thought, would she feel alive again.