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To be no more

More \More\, adv.

  1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.

    1. With a verb or participle.

      Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement.
      --Milton.

    2. 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. 2

  3. 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.

Usage examples of "to be no more".

Sad pot plants were dotted around the desk's plastic tops in an effort to humanise what appeared to be no more than a processing plant.

Thinking the question to be no more than a ruse to lower his confidence, Berkthgar issued a low growl.

On Kaitain it appeared to be no more than coarse cloth, but he wore it like a royal mantle.

He urged me to masturbate all I want to and whenever I want to, all my life, and to be no more ashamed of it than I am of peeing - just close the door, as I do when peeing.

They were either absolutely sure their Gods existed, or not very sure at all: and those who were most certain seemed to be no more at peace with the fact than those who doubted.

Though the two looked to be no more than twenty-five, they had to be thousands of years old.