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/mɔr ənd mɔr/ Listen

adverb

More adv.

1.

In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.

(a)

With a verb or participle. "Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement."

(b)

With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly. "Happy here, and more happy hereafter." Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer. "The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter."

2.

In addition; further; besides; again. "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude."

More and more, with continual increase. "Amon trespassed more and more."

The more, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified.

The more the more, by how much more by so much more. "The more he praised it in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very deed it was not in him."

To be no more, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more. "Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more."

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