More /(mōr)/

a., compar.

Greater; superior; increased;
He gat more money.
— Chaucer.

If we procure not to ourselves more woe.
— Milton.

Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight.
— Spenser.

The more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
— Acts xix. 32.

Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
— Shak.
Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.
The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
— Ex. i. 9.
Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.
With open arms received one poet more.
— Pope.

A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
— Ex. xvi. 17.
That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.
They that would have more and more can never have enough.
— L'Estrange.

O! That pang where more than madness lies.
— Byron.

Any more: Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more.
No more: not anything more; nothing in addition.
The more and less: the high and low.

adv.

In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.
Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement.
— Milton.
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.

The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter.
— Shak.
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.

Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.
— Byron.

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