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the measure of misery anear us
1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […]
And soon I heard a roaring wind: / It did not come anear; / But with its sound it shook the sails, / That were so thin and sere.
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
As slowly, one by one, / The stars appear, / My burdened heart I lift, / And feel to God anear.
1907, Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, Poems
third-person singular simple present anears, present participle anearing, simple past and past participle aneared
(obsolete) To approach
(obsolete) nearly