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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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