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单词 more and more
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more and more
b. more and more: in an increasing degree; to an increasing extent.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > increasing in quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > increasingly
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more and morec1175
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 676 He wile himm færenn ȝiff he maȝȝ. & skerrenn mare. & mare.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 511 Chirches ben wursiped mor and mor.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5865 (MED) Þai rise and bredes ai mare and mare.
c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 17210 (MED) Þei..schewed ay meknes more and more.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 1260 (MED) God wote he was an hevy man therfore And ther with abisshid more and more.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 9 Greuand God ay moir and moir.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ii. f. 9 But Kalander seeing him [sc. Musidorus] faint more and more, with carefull speede conueyed him to the most commodious lodging in his house.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 374 His cough breaketh more and more.
1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6024 Thereby more and more to concenter the acid parts.
1681 London Gaz. No. 1625/1 They of Liege do every day more and more exasperate things.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. vii. 277 Men grow daily more and more wicked.
c1750 J. Gutteridge in Gentleman's Mag. (1819) May 394/2 Harwood, my townsman, he invented first Porter to rival wine, and quench the thirst. Porter,..Whose reputation rises more and more.
1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Death Wallenstein ii. iii. 45 Where's he that will unravel This tangle, ever tangling more and more?
1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 138 The Shepherd Lord was honour'd more and more.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 44 At this he blushed more and more.
1905 J. Brierley Eternal Relig. 100 Hence more and more the idea will prevail that ignorance, unskill in things,..is in itself a kind of lower morality.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. v. 252 Portia watched these preparations with growing misgivings; they made her dread more and more that Eddie might not come.
1990 New Age Oct. 56/2 The world grows smaller and smaller, more and more interdependent.
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