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Definition of More and more
1. Adverb. Advancing in amount or intensity. "She became increasingly depressed"
Definition of More and more
1. Adverb. (context: degree) Progressively more. ¹
2. Adverb. (context: manner) In a manner that progressively increases. ¹
3. Adverb. (context: modal) (non-gloss definition Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.) ¹
4. Determiner. Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of More And More
Literary usage of More and more
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"Towards the close of the Republic, Plato seems to be more and more convinced of
the ideal character of his own speculations. At the end of the gth Book the ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"Whereas the workman concentrates his faculties more and more upon the ... This man
resembles more and more the administrator of a vast empire—that man, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"MSS. and chartere in the vulgar tongue are more and more numerous. Writing ceases
to be a monastic art; it no longer possesses its former beautiful ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"Briefly, their view is that by a resort to more and more capitalistic or roundabout
... Add more tools and appliances — that is, do more and more labor of ..."
5. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"PAUL GROWS more and more OLD-FASHIONED, AND GOES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. WHEN the
Midsummer vacation approached, no indecent manifestations of joy were ..."
6. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"Towards the close of the Republic, Plato seems to be more and more convinced of
the ideal character of his own speculations. At the end of the gth Book the ..."
7. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"Whereas the workman concentrates his faculties more and more upon the ... This man
resembles more and more the administrator of a vast empire—that man, ..."
8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"MSS. and chartere in the vulgar tongue are more and more numerous. Writing ceases
to be a monastic art; it no longer possesses its former beautiful ..."
9. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"Briefly, their view is that by a resort to more and more capitalistic or roundabout
... Add more tools and appliances — that is, do more and more labor of ..."
10. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"PAUL GROWS more and more OLD-FASHIONED, AND GOES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. WHEN the
Midsummer vacation approached, no indecent manifestations of joy were ..."
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