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The more
(gcide) | 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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The more -- the more
(gcide) | 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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The more and less
(gcide) | More \More\, n.
1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds
or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.
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And the children of Israel did so, and gathered,
some more, some less. --Ex. xvi. 17.
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2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an
additional or greater amount.
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They that would have more and more can never have
enough. --L'Estrange.
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O! That pang where more than madness lies. --Byron.
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Any more.
(a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do
not need any more.
(b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do
not think any more about it.
No more, not anything more; nothing in addition.
The more and less, the high and low. [Obs.] --Shak. "All
cried, both less and more." --Chaucer.
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