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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
furthermore
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The majority of Americans increased their wealth in the past decade. Furthermore, the gains were substantial.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A little religion is thought, furthermore, to be the way to reduce crime and promote a stable society.
▪ And furthermore, what is the justification for making it?
▪ It can, furthermore, be used in the ward.
▪ The monarch is, furthermore, more than merely a part of Parliament under the constitution of the United Kingdom.
▪ To be blunt, the Net isn't meant for kids, and furthermore, it's not a babysitter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furthermore

Furthermore \Fur"ther*more"\, adv. or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
furthermore

c.1200, from further (adv.) + more. There also was a farthermore in Middle English. Related: Furthermost.

Wiktionary
furthermore

adv. In addition; besides; what is more; used to denote additional information.

WordNet
furthermore

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: moreover, what is more]

Usage examples of "furthermore".

Furthermore, the rights which the present statutes confer are subject to the Anti-Trust Acts, though it can be hardly said that the cases in which the Court has endeavored to draw the line between the rights claimable by patentees and the kind of monopolistic privileges which are forbidden by those acts exhibit entire consistency in their holdings.

Furthermore, the round ball used was very inefficient aerodynamically, limiting range and accuracy.

Furthermore, after being told specifically by the Cheshire Cat that the Hatter and the March Hare are both mad, Alice, when she meets them in her next adventure, remains unin-structed and stubbornly persists in her futile attempts to relate their crazy, disordered actions to her old notions of order and sanity.

Furthermore, Ananke has ruled that we of the Light are not to be accorded any more special privileges simply because we are Good.

Furthermore, the idea that different kinds of corpuscles, or atoms, could combine with one another was the first step toward understanding the nature of chemical reactions.

Furthermore, he is obliged to Dave the Dude, because Dave sells him good champagne when most guys are trying to hand him the old phonus bolonus, and naturally Rodney B.

Furthermore, her feet, which were usually bare about the house, were now neatly clad in store-bOLight patent leather, and, by Jesus, she was wearing a sprig of bougainvillaea tucked into the shiny black slick of her hair.

Furthermore, the Brahminic thinkers and sages were a distinct class of men whose whole lives were absorbed in introspective reveries and metaphysical broodings calculated to stimulate the imagination and arouse to the keenest consciousness all the latent marvels and possibilities of human experience, thus furnishing the most favorable conditions for exactly such a belief as that of transmigration, an endless series of ever varying adventures for the imperishable soul.

Furthermore, the English Catholics might take refuge in Flanders against oppression at home.

Furthermore, where the purple-gray stratum in which the lodges occur is covered up by the rising ground surface, the cavate lodges abruptly cease.

Furthermore, the observatories at Ceres, Vesta, Juno, or Pallas might pick up the flash.

There was, furthermore, a squint-eyed Lithuanian skipper, wanted for murder in Riga and for piracy in Pernambuco, who took them to Vladivostok and into the tranquil presence of a Nanking compradore with gold-encased fingernails and a charming taste in early Ming porcelain.

Furthermore, even if we wait three years, some of the older backup cores would be uninfected.

Furthermore, everyone who is born a Christian is aware that evils are to be shunned as sins because the Decalog is put into the hands of every boy and girl and is taught by parents and teachers.

Furthermore, Diamat had been glad of it, and might even have instigated the seizure.