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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
moreover
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Using language is a very complex enterprise. Moreover, there is more to communication than merely putting sentences together.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Coventry, moreover, differed fundamentally from the Stour Valley.
▪ Early in the seventeenth century, moreover, the post of premier commis had begun to emerge.
▪ Everything suggests, moreover, that Sereny has a special and patient charisma.
▪ He should, moreover, be a moderate liberal since that party controlled a majority of the seats in Congress.
▪ I had no desire to return, and moreover, the watchman would not let me in anyway.
▪ It seems likely, moreover, that the police deliberately avoided mixing it in the more perilous districts.
▪ The conditions upon which States receive the funds, moreover, could not be more clearly stated by Congress.
▪ They were portrayed as more potent and, moreover, incurable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moreover

Moreover \More*o"ver\, adv. [More + over.] Beyond what has been said; further; besides; in addition; furthermore; also; likewise.

Moreover, he hath left you all his walks.
--Shak.

Syn: Besides, Moreover.

Usage: Of the two words, moreover is the stronger and is properly used in solemn discourse, or when what is added is important to be considered. See Besides.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moreover

late 14c., in phrase and yit more ouer "there is more to say;" from more (adv.) + over (adv.). Written as one word from late 14c.

Wiktionary
moreover

adv. (context conjunctive English) In addition to what has been said; furthermore; additionally.

WordNet
moreover

adv. in addition; "computer chess games are getting cheaper all the time; furthermore, their quality is improving"; "the cellar was dark; moreover, mice nested there"; "what is more, there's no sign of a change" [syn: furthermore, what is more]

Usage examples of "moreover".

Even if destitute of any formal or official enunciation of those important truths, which even in a cultivated age it was often found inexpedient to assert except under a veil of allegory, and which moreover lose their dignity and value in proportion as they are learned mechanically as dogmas, the shows of the Mysteries certainly contained suggestions if not lessons, which in the opinion not of one competent witness only, but of many, were adapted to elevate the character of the spectators, enabling them to augur something of the purposes of existence, as well as of the means of improving it, to live better and to die happier.

Moreover, and more amazingly, he gave her the honor and respect he would have given another man, treated her as an equal, never even seemed to think that she was anything else.

Moreover the Romans intensely admired feats of bravery, and that this captive should offer to face single handed an animal that was known to be one of the most powerful of those in the amphitheatre filled them with admiration.

Moreover, as suggested by the anthrax attacks of last fall, the immune system of elderly individuals may be sufficiently different to increase their susceptibility to certain microorganisms.

Moreover, the idea of the chosen bishops and deacons as the antitypes of the Priests and Levites, had been formed at an early period in connection with the idea of the new sacrifice.

Moreover, since we know that riches first and chiefly appertain to the support of the body only, while the virtue of books is the perfection of reason, which is properly speaking the happiness of man, it appears that books to the man who uses his reason are dearer than riches.

The principle of apportionment is, moreover, applicable to the intangible property of a company engaged in both interstate and local commerce, as well as to its tangible property.

De Flotte in one district, Victor Hugo in another, Schoelcher in a third, are actively urging on the combat, and expose their lives a score of times, but none feel themselves supported by any organized body: and moreover the attempt of the Royalists in the Tenth Arrondissement has roused apprehension.

Moreover, in assessing that part of a railroad within its limits, a State need not treat it as an independent line, disconnected from the part without, and place upon the property within the State only a value which could be given to it if operated separately from the balance of the road.

Moreover, Padmasambhava warns that without having developed a high degree of attentional stability and vividness, even if one apprehends the nature of awareness, it remains only an object of intellectual understanding, leading merely to philosophical discourse at best and dogmatism at worst.

Moreover, all these Buddhist philosophical schools share in common a wide range of contemplative practices, such as techniques for enhancing attentional stability and vividness.

We are, moreover, justified in concluding from the character of the final chorus that it was a ballata or dance song and hence a frottola of the carnival song variety.

He moreover enjoyed the dignity of castellain and chief bannerer or banneret of London.

Moreover, the red berries, or their coloured fleshy cups, are not poisonous when taken in moderation, but rejecting the seeds.

Moreover, Watteau was a brushman, and introduced not only a new spirit and new subject into art, but a new method.