[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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