† morern.
Obsolete. rare.
An agent which causes something to increase or grow larger.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > one who or that which increases
enhancera1425
morerc1450
augmentor1485
increaser1528
augmenter1539
amplifier1546
adder1547
magnifier1550
improver1607
booster1917
builder-upper1936
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 2 Þis word, Augustus..soundith in our langage as a morer of þe lordschip.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 2 A morer of þe cite a-boue, a gret encreser of þe blis of heuene.
1838 H. W. Herbert Cromwell II. iii. 162 But for that death-warrant, the navigation act had never..made her, as the great commercial nation, one of the mightiest springs and morers of the universe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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