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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
more \more\, adv.
1. in a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or
degree.
a with a verb or participle.
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admiring more
the riches of heaven's pavement. --milton.
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b with an adjective or adverb instead of the suffix
-er to form the comparative degree; as, more durable;
more active; more sweetly.
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happy here, and more happy hereafter. --bacon.
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note: double comparatives were common among writers of the
elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more
brighter; more dearer.
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the duke of milan
and his more braver daughter. --shak.
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2. in addition; further; besides; again.
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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.
--milton.
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more and more, with continual increase. "amon trespassed
more and more." --2 chron. xxxiii. 23.
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." --milton.
to be no more, to have ceased to be; as, cassius is no
more; troy is no more.
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those oracles which set the world in flames,
nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.
--byron.
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see also:
more and more the more the more -- the more to be no more
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