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c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 2213 Tow bed..that hast receyuyd two..Where is thyn grettere part awey I-gon?

a1450–1500 ( Libel Eng. Policy (1926) l. 100 The wolle of Spayne hit cometh not to presse But if it be tosed and menged well Amonges Englysshe wolle the gretter delle.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 76 The gretter party of oure people ar slayne and distressed.

1551 W. Thomas tr. Livy Argument Apparaile of Women sig. Bviii There is no law, that serueth to euery mans profite: but this ought to be regarged, whether it bee commodiouse for the greatter part and generally.

1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie f. 119^v The Ciuill Lutherans, and Melanchthonistes beare all the rule in Misnia, in the greater parte of Franconia, and at Norimberg.

1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 42 The greater sort do agree that this word [sc. image] is distinguished from Likeness.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. iv. 3 b The greater part of us went a shoare to see the Ilande.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 29 The greater part, the Horse in generall Are come with Cassius. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 399 The greater file of the subiect held the Duke to be wise. View more context for this quotation

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 81 The Hexapods from which the greater sort of Beetles come.

1710 J. Swift Tale of Tub (ed. 5) Apol. sig. A7^v For the greater Part the Reflecter is entirely mistaken.

1729 W. Law Serious Call xix. 354 The much greater part of them, are not brought up so well..as in the present instance.

1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. 249 The characters in tragedy are, for much the greater part, out of common life.

1793 A. Young Trav. France II. xvi. 353 In some districts, the course is for two years; but in the greater part it is for more than three.

1829 W. S. Landor Wks. (1846) II. 210/1 The greater number of men..are disposed, on most occasions, rather to virtue than to vice.

1869 R. Williams tr. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics v. 151 A justice produces equality in the same way as if, a line having been divided into two unequal segments, one were to take the excess of the greater segment.., and were to cut it off from the greater segment, and add it to the less.

1917 Wairarapa (N.Z.) Daily Times 13 Oct. 4 The deceased..took the greater portion of a box of ‘Rough on Rats’ and immediately became seriously ill.

1921 National Geographic Mag. Mar. 280/1 A narrow green belt..pursues the river through the Jordan Valley, which for the greater part is an arid waste.

1952 M. Kennedy Troy Chimneys 25 My father, for the greater part of the time, is still at Cambridge.

2001 S. O'Donovan-Polten Scales of Success vi. 145 Women continued to shoulder the greater share of responsibility for household maintenance and management.