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or MORE, a. L. magis mare for mager but this is conjecture.
1. Greater in quality, degree or amount in a general sense as more land more water more courage more virtue more power or wisdom more love more praise more light. It is applicable to every thing, material or immaterial.
2. Greater in number exceeding in numbers as more men more virtues more years.
The children of Israel are more than we. Exodus 1
3. Greater.
The more part knew not why they had come together. Acts 19
4. Added to some former number additional.
But Montague demands one labor more.
MORE, adv. To a greater degree.
Israel loved Joseph more than all his children. Genesis 37
1. It is used with the.
They hated him yet the more. Genesis 37
2. It is used to modify an adjective and form the comparative degree, having the same force and effect as the termination er, in monosyllables as more wise more illustrious more contemptible more durable. It may be used before all adjectives which admit of comparison, and must be used before polysyllables.
3. A second or another time again. I expected to hear of him mo more.
The dove returned not to him again any more. Genesis 8
No more, not continuing existing no longer gone deceased or destroyed. Cassius is no more. Troy is no more.
No more is used in commands, in an elliptical form of address. No more! that is, say no more let me hear no more. In this use however, more, when the sentence is complete, is a noun or substitute for a noun.
Much more, in a greater degree or with more readiness more abundantly.
More and more, with continual increase.
Amon trespassed more and more. 2 Chronicles 33 .
MORE, a noun or substitute for a noun. A greater quantity, amount or number.
They gathered some more, some less. Exodus 16
They were more who died by hail-stones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. Joshua 10
God do so to thee and more also. 1 Samuel 3
There were more than forty who had made this conspiracy. Acts 23
1. Greater thing other thing something further. Here we rest we can do no more. He conquered his enemies he did more, he conquered himself.
MORE, To make more.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'More'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/m/more.html.
