Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MORE
MORE, n. [a noun or substitute for a noun.]
- A greater quantity, amount or number. They gathered some more, some less. Ex. xvi. They were more who died by hail-stones; than they whom the children of Israel slew widh the sword. Josh. x. God do so to thee and more also. 1 Sam. iii.
- There were more than forty who had made this conspiracy. Acts xxiii.
- Greater thing; other thing; something further. Here we rest; we can do no more. He conquered his enemies; he did more, he conquered himself.
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