The Grammar of English Grammars, page 701 by Gould Brown
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> or _utter, after_ and _hither_; as well as of the Latin superior and _inferior, anterior_ and _posterior, interior_ and _exterior, prior_ and _ulterior, senior_ and _junior, major_ and _minor_; that they cannot, like other comparatives, be construed with the conjunction than. After all genuine English comparatives, this conjunction may occur, because it is the only fit word for introducing the latter term of comparison; but we never say one thing is former or _latter, superior_ or _inferior, than_ an other. And so of all the rest here named. Again, no real comparative or superlative can ever need an other superadded to it; but inferior and superior convey ideas that do not always preclude the additional conception of more or _less_: as, "With respect to high and low notes, pronunciation is still more inferior to singing."--_Kames, Elements of Criticism_, Vol. ii, p. 73. "The mistakes which the most superior understanding is apt to fall into."--_West's Letters to a Young Lady_, p. 117.
OBS. 5.--Double comparatives and double superlatives, being in general awkward and unfashionable, as well as tautological, ought to be avoided. Examples: "The Duke of Milan, and his more braver daughter, could control thee."--_Shak., Tempest_. Say, "his more gallant daughter." "What in me was purchased, falls upon thee in a more fairer sort."--_Id., Henry IV_. Say, "fairer," or, "_more honest_;" for "_purchased_" here means stolen. "Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be."--_Id., Hen. VI_. Say, "a worse shape"--or, "an uglier shape." "After the most straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee."--Acts, xxvi, 5. Say, "the strictest sect." "Some say he's mad; others, that lesser hate him, do call it valiant fury."--Shak. Say, "others, that hate him less." In this last example, lesser is used adverbially; in whic