Upper adv.

Now rare. [f. UP adv.¹ or adv.² + -ER³.] To or in a loftier place or position; higher, further up.

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c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, II. 884. With this word, vpper to sore He gan. Ibid. (c. 1391), Astrol., II. § 12. As the sonne clymbith vppere & vppere.

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c. 1550. Cheke, Matt. xxiii. 12. Whosoever abaseth himself schal be set vpper.

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a. 1552. Leland, Itin. (1711), III. 6. A litle Foreland about a Mile upper then Kenor on Severn.

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1901. Punch, 21 Sept., 224/1. We go up, up, up, up, and upper, upper,… skirting … precipices.

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