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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. --Milton.
(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. --Bacon.
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. --Shak.
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. --Milton.
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.
Those oracles which set the world in flames,
Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. --Byron.
more and more
adv : advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly
depressed" [syn: increasingly, progressively]