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lesser Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 used to describe something that is not as great in size, amount, or importance as something else:
- A lesser man (= a man who was not as strong or brave) might have given up at that point.
- The charge of murder was altered to the lesser (= less serious) charge of manslaughter.
- Ethiopia and, to a lesser extent/degree, Kenya will be badly affected by the drought.
1 not as great in size, amount, or importance as something else:
- Texas and, to a lesser degree, Oklahoma will be affected by the drought.

Students at a lower level of proficiency benefited from the first approach, whereas students at a higher level did so to a lesser extent.
One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining, and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences.
Such theories still move us from lesser to greater conditions of intelligibility.
The lesser ones probably opted to seek their fortune in the clothing trade.
They had some support amongst officials at court, but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners.
They have greater verbal and lesser spatial and mathematical ability, and less self-confidence and competitiveness.
Given women's lesser upper-body strength as compared with men's, a positive evaluation of violence helps to legitimate male domination.
We have assumed that all objective functions are" desirable" in that we prefer greater to lesser objective function values.