And in asmych as it is so nere your most elmyse ere, it shall be to you the gretter vylney and shame to all your frendis, and the grettest coragyng and plesere that can be to your elmyse.
And thei may wel do so; for clothes of gold and of sylk ben gretter chep there a gret del, than ben clothes of wolle.
And of that moneye, is som of gretter prys, and som of lasse prys, aftre the dyversitee of his statutes.
There ben hilles, where men getten gret plentee of manna, in gretter habundance, than in ony other contree.
For the gold and the precious stones and the grete oryent perles ben of gretter value, on this half the see, than thei ben bezond the see, in tho contrees.
For the tyrant is of gretter might, By force of meynee for to sleen doun-right, And brennen hous and hoom, and make al plain, Lo!
But who-so list disport hym in that same, Let hym continue and he shall fynd it grame; It is wel gretterlabour than it seemeth.
And Salomon seith: that "the gretter richesses that a man hath, the mo despendours he hath.
For Salomon seith: that "he that repreveth him that doth folye, / he shal finde gretter grace than he that deceyveth him by swete wordes.
Love is a gretter lawe, by my pan, 1165 Than may be yeve to any erthly man.
And the same Seneca also seith: 'I am born to gretter thinges than to be thral to my body, or than for to maken of my body a thral.
For Senek seith: that "he putteth him in greet peril that stryveth with a gretter man than he is him-self.
Of gretter cause may no wight him compleyne Than I; for love hath set me in swich caas That lasse Ioye and more encrees of peyne Ne hath no man; wherfore I crye 'allas!
And evere the hyer that he is in ordre, the gretter is the sinne.
Ther-to desyr so brenningly me assaylleth, That to ben slayn it were a gretter Ioye To me than king of Grece been and Troye!
Love is a gretterlawe and a strenger to him-self than any lawe that men may yeven.
Takith to his larder at what price he wold, Of gretter lambren, j.
The gome that gooth with o staf, He semeth in gretter heele Than he that gooth with two staves, To sighte of us alle.
So is the Holy Goost God, Neither gretter ne lasse.
It is by witchcraft that Gretter is first lamed and finally slain; one can see that Glam's curse, the Beowulf motif, was not really in the original Gretter story.
And therfore sayth the philosopher/ he that leseth his fayth and beleue/ may lose no gretter ne more thynge.
There was no man gretter at hert with hym, as Andreus wyth Heydon, because of castyng Bradwell and Tychewell yn the Kynges handes, and toke awey the waarde.
And therfor I most be muet and suffre gretter losses but [unless] it be othyrwyse concydered.
Pekok tellythe me that his mony is spent, and not ryotesly, but wysly and discretly, for the costs is gretter in the Kyngs howse qwen he rydythe than ze wend it hadde be, as Wyllam Pekok can tell zow; and therof wee must gett hym jCs.
Also thankyng you of the grete chere that I had of you when I was with you laste with all my herte, prayng you of good contenuanse, for I had never gretter nede than I have now, and if I had leyser and space, I wolde write to you the cause.
He that wille dysseyve hys servaunt yn maryage for so litell a thyng, he wold disseyve another frende yn a gretter thyng.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gretter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
