no morepron.n.adj.adv.
/nəʊ ˈmɔː/, U.S. /ˈnoʊ ˈmɔr/ A. pron. and n.† 2. [ < sense B. 1.] As a count noun: an utterance of ‘no more’ used to request no more of the thing specified. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. Nothing more or further.In Old English and early Middle English with partitive genitive.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > no more
no moOE
no moreOE
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > nothing > no more
no moOE
no moreOE
α.
β. a1200 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Trin. Cambr.) 357 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 231 (MED) He haueð sswo muchel þat he ne bit no more.?a1300 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Digby) (1907) 48 (MED) Ne red ich him speken na more.c1350 Ayenbite (1866) App. 270 (MED) Nammore ne is be-tuene ane manne and ane beste bote ine onderstondynge.a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 3439 (MED) Ther is nomor to seie.1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 113 I sey nomore to the at this tyme.c1475 Mankind (1969) 586 (MED) Of labure and preyer, I am nere yrke of both; I wyll no more of yt, thow Mercy be wroth.1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cvi Of me gettis thou na more Doutles this day.a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 62 No mor thi part dois fall Bot met and clacht.a1561 G. Cavendish Metrical Visions (1980) 253 This is my last complaynt, I can say you no moore.1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. D2 I can no more but giue you mine aduise.1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 33 As long as I gave I stood, but now I can give no more.1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 332 Nor has R. H. produced anything material against any part of Mr. Mede's Interpretations, no more no[r] so much as against his Synchronisms.1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 18 They had no more to do then but to get into their Boats.1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 4 Fate! drop the Curtain; I can lose no more.1789 W. H. Brown Power of Sympathy xxi. 102 ADIEU! my dear Myra—this unhappy affair has worked me into a fit of melancholy. I can write no more.1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 406 There was no more of blasphemy in the publication than there was of witchcraft.1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 2 Who asked no more from them meanwhile, than that they should prove their love.1887 W. F. Barry New Antigone I. i. v. 69 Had you come in my father's lifetime, for her sake he would have granted you an interview. He would have done no more.1926 T. H. Ferril High Passage 30 If he marked other verse, I find no more.1970 G. W. Barrax Another Kind of Rain 27 Bright swords For which we had no more to give than all We belonged to had to lose in us.1988 D. O'Brien Rites of Autumn iii. 116 I ate until I could hold no more.OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 5 Ða ne andswarode se hælend him na mare [c1200 Hatton nam mare].
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) xxvi. 59 Swa weligne þæt he genog hæbbe & no maran ne ðyrfe.
c1175 ( Homily: Hist. Holy Rood-tree (Bodl. 343) (1894) 26 Ne sæcge ic eow ȝyt na mare þonne ic ær sæde.
?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 25 Meng þane eall togadere and seoð hit swa swyðe, þæt þæs wines and þæs eles ne sy na mære, þane ær wæs þæs eles.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 37 Soðliche ne þerft þu bidden namare.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 15737 Nat ich na mare to suggen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5780 (MED) Þis es mi nam, namar na less.
c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 67 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 65 Þai tynt þe sycht, & mycht nomare do, as for þane.
?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 90 Of varldis gud I bad na mair.
1786 R. Burns Poems 78 I shall say nae mair, But quat my sang.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 263 I beg nae mair at ony single house than a meal o' meat.
1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting 109 Me n Lexo pulled a bit ay business oaf. Ah'm sayin nae mair oan the fuckin subject, but it's the best ah disappear fir a couple ay weeks.
b. As a command or request.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > here I will stop [phrase] > have done with
no morec1385
(a) truce with1700
(a) truce to1786
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1707 Ho, Na moore [v.r. No more], vp peyne of lesyng of youre heed.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 177 (MED) Peasse now, no more!
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 247 Before the time be out? no more . View more context for this quotation
1661 W. Lower Enchanted Lovers i. iv. 21 No more, here comes the Nymph.
1707 J. Addison Rosamond i. 2 Trifler, no more!
1745 C. Cibber Papal Tyranny i. i. 6 No more! thy Insults tempt my Patience!
1799 M. Hays Victim of Prejudice II. iv. 69 ‘No more’, said I impatiently, endeavouring to rush past him, while he forcibly detained me; ‘I will not be thus constrained.’
1822 Ld. Byron Vision of Judgm. xcii The monarch..exclaimed ‘What! what!..No more—no more of that!’
1856 J. Brougham Game of Life v. 38 True, true! Hush! No more!
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters xv. 161 ‘No more o't!’ roared Gourlay, flinging out his hand. ‘Not another word! You go to College in October!’
1949 E. Muir Coll. Poems 198 No more, no more. Let the great tidings stay unsaid, For I must to the door.
1990 M. Leigh Naked & Other Screenplays (1995) 160 That is enough..no more. Right? 'Cos you're being a naughty boy.
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1895 tr. J. J. Jusserand Eng. Ess. 151 No more Don Japhet, no more verses..; of all these no mores, the last is the worst.
B. adj.
1. Not any more; no further.In quot. 1719 with implication of adv. A. 1.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [adjective] > no more
no moOE
no moreOE
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1079 Ne wylle we þeh her na mare scaðe awritan þe he his fæder ge[dyde].
lOE St. Margaret (Corpus Cambr.) (1994) 166 Þæt þu me na mare yfel ne do.
a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) l. 144 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 146 Ligge þe [read we] sulen þer hut..in an wreche clut, Of alle his riche cloþis, ne hauet he na more scrud.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2530 (MED) Of grim bidde ich na more spelle.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 2454 (MED) It was no more nede to bere þat [barn] no forþer.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. 279 (MED) Ergo saluabitur, quod he, and seyde namore latyne.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 3237 Be wel ware to take nomore Counsel, that greveth aftir sore.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 196 Eftir to Scottis that did no mor grewance.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 66 In the Morning when I look'd out, behold no more Ship was to be seen.
1743 H. Fielding Wedding Day i. iv. 7 I am at home to no more Female Relations this Morning.
1788 M. Wollstonecraft Mary iii. 19 The companion of her youth forgot her, they took no more sweet counsel together.
1855 R. Browning Bishop Blougram 1 No more wine? Then we'll push back chairs and talk.
1897 T. Hardy Well-Beloved i. iv. 27 Then the time will soon draw on when no more good-byes will be required.
1912 W. Boyle Family Failing ii. 31 No, Kate, no more luxuries for any one in this house. Work is our motto.
1927 K. Tynan There in Twilight Songs 32 There shall be no more partings there for ever. She need not see the children going forth.
1988 M. Sendak Caldecott & Co. (1989) ii. 177 I'd much rather we just took a year off, a moratorium: no more books.
2. In comparative constructions, with †but, than.† a. No greater in size, rank, stature, etc. Obsolete.
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xx. 339 Se fæder nis na mare þonne se sunu on þære godcundnysse.
c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 907 He Was flowen fro the ground so hye That al the world..No more semed than a prikke.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) i. 344 An ake wes na mare in hys hand Than now in owrys ane hesylle wand.
b. No greater number or amount of.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [phrase] > no more
no morea1225
neverthemorec1330
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 133 (MED) He namare euel ne dieð, þanne ðe man ðe sitt idel and halt is on hand in oðer.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12933 Ælde næfde heo na mare buten fihtene ȝere.
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale I.188 In helle..namoore reuerence shal be doon..to a kyng than to a knaue.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2248 (MED) Busk no more debate þen I þe bede þenne.
a1450 (a1396) W. Hilton Eight Chapters on Perfection 10 (MED) Þere is no more dignyte ne worþines þat a man mai come to, þan for to haue tribulacioun for Cristis loue.
a1500 ( Vision E. Leversedge in Notes & Queries Somerset & Dorset (1905) 9 32 (MED) Also j charge the..that thou never..take ȝou no maure ordir vpon the then thou hast by fore this tyme, but conteneu thi life as a clarke.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Acts xxiv. B There are yet nomore but twolue dayes sence I came vp to Ierusalem.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 70 Surely there is no more but one course of wel gouerning the common wealth.
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 157 Laud was resolved that there should be no more but one Bishop in that City.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables (1708) ccccxxviii. 463 I know no more Reason I have to Obey my Husband, than my Husband has to Obey me.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 176. ⁋8 Having no more Children than one Daughter.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 206 His works have no more merit than finicalness..can give them.
1819 T. Hope Anastasius II. i. 5 Of the things themselves whose appellations he had learnt, he seemed to have no more idea than the huge Angora cat which sat purring by his side.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 63 Great is the power of hydraulic! Here is a hole..squeezed out of a slab of steel with no more fuss than if the steel were piecrust!
1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War i. 10 Nobody seemed to be aware that I had no more power to punish than a subaltern on detachment.
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xx. 353 He's a dwaibly body wi' nae mair fushion than a thresh.
1999 A. Mallinson Close Run Thing i. 33 Barrow looked up with no more expression of surprise than if he had been taking orders for bivouac.
C. adv.
1.
a. No longer; not any more.Passing into sense A. 1b.In Indian English preceding the verb.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > before the present
no moreOE
not yetc1485
B.P.1946
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. xii. 88 Ne swinc þu nu na mare.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10089 Godd ne shollde kepenn. Na mare to beon þeowwtedd swa.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 1949 Þa nolde Brutus na mare þat hit swa ihaten weore.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 213 (MED) Nu him ne lust na more pleie.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 139 (MED) Ihesus ne abod namore, Ak to Ierusalem wente aȝen.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1624 (MED) To minge of þat matere no more i ne þenk.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2433 If he wald þer namar [a1400 Fairf. na mare; a1400 Gött. no longer] leind..he most hamward..weind.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 148 He wald na mare be called kyng.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 879 (MED) Þe deuel sey þat no more His dwelling place might be þore.
?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xxxiii. f. 20v (MED) Striue nomore þer wiþ, ne henge no lengir þer vpon.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 277 Cwm hame and duell no mair in Stirling.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. i. 114 b They resorted with the elders and were no more subiect to goe vnto the warres.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vi. 4 Hold me no more in your respect. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 142 Th' unhappy Husband, Husband now no more, Did on his tuneful Harp his Loss deplore. View more context for this quotation
1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 4 Hymen no more officiates at their Marriages, the Saffron Robe hangs neglected in the Ward-robe, the Genuine Torch is long since extinguish'd.
1757 T. Gray Ode II iii. i, in Odes 19 No more our long-lost Arthur we bewail.
1796 H. Macneill Waes o' War i. 8 Up wi' frantic haste she started; Cauld, nor fear, she felt nae mair.
1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 147 The things which I have seen I now can see no more . View more context for this quotation
1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow II. iv. 36 Catherine visited her no more; and within a week after the explosion of the 4th, she left Hawk-Hollow with her friend Harriet, and was absent for a considerable period.
1877 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) II. 216 Military distinction is no more possible by prowess.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters xxvii. 323 She was listless no more. Willing her death, she seemed to borrow its greatness and become one with the law that punished her.
1953 P. Colum Interior in Coll. Poems II. 91 And doves flew with every burial..Two white doves with the coffened, But the doves fly no more.
1986 Panorama 195 She says she could no more bear to see her old Papa carrying heavy buckets.
2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) vii. 162 You ain't got no physical body no more now, kiddo.
b. Never again; nevermore.
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the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > never > never again
nevermoOE
no moOE
nevermorelOE
no morelOE
nathemoc1275
no (also not any) longer1766
lOE tr. R. d'Escures Sermo in Festis Sancte Marie Virginis in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 138 Ne sculen namare þa Judees hire Sune swingan ne cwellen.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8549 Loke þat þu na mare swulc þing ne iscire.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 2182 (MED) Vor hii na more in þis lond nolde come.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 2048 (MED) Sche..het me neuer so hardi be in hire siȝt to come..I ne dar for drede no more to hire drawe.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 3555 This caytif..wole no more to you trespasse.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 91 (MED) Þis old man..bad hur..temp no mor no men.
a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) 725 (MED) Fro he had hym þis worde sayd, he wakens no more.
1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Albanacte vi Commaunded neuer to retourne no more.
a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) iI. ii We will work no more till thy Seventh Son, O Queen, who must be born a Prophet, shall Foretel.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 3 How happy they who wake no more!
1796 R. Bage Hermsprong I. v. 48 Ah, poor dear soul! we shall see her no more in a frosty morning.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 388 The waters..are gone, and can return no more.
1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 235 No more to rest in sabbath shade.
1887 W. F. Barry New Antigone I. i. iv. 62 When I have put it into his hands, I will turn again and he shall see me no more until he welcomes me as his daughter's husband.
1902–11 W. S. Gilbert Pygmalion & Galatea ii. 64 Once every day this death occurs to us, Till thou and I and all who dwell on earth Shall sleep to wake no more?
1972 E. B. Daryush Sel. Poems 45 Where (so longing saith) Life's road shall leave me—No more, mortal death, Shalt thou deceive me.
1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 95 (advt.) No more will the designer be restricted by overcrowded cable trays and equipment termination problems.
c. As predicate: no longer in existence; dead. Now chiefly poetic or ironically.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
deadOE
lifelessOE
of lifeOE
storvena1225
dead as a door-nail1362
ydead1387
stark deadc1390
colda1400
bypast1425
perishedc1440
morta1450
obita1450
unquickc1449
gone?a1475
dead and gone1482
extinct1483
departed1503
bygonea1522
amort1546
soulless1553
breathless1562
parted1562
mortified1592
low-laid1598
disanimate1601
carcasseda1603
defunct1603
no morea1616
with God1617
death-stricken1618
death-strucken1622
expired1631
past itc1635
incinerated1657
stock-dead1662
dead as a herring1664
death-struck1688
as dead as a nit1789
(as) dead as mutton1792
low1808
laid in the locker1815
strae-dead1820
disanimated1833
ghosted1834
under the daisies1842
irresuscitable1843
under the sod1847
toes up1851
dead and buried1863
devitalized1866
translated1869
dead and done (for, with)1886
daid1890
bung1893
(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > no longer existent
ceased1556
vanished1594
deada1616
no morea1616
defunct1741
evanished1829
inextant1831
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. iii. 59 But Cassius is no more . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 827 But what if God have seen, And Death ensue? then I shall be no more . View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 471. ¶4 When the Heavens and Earth shall be no more.
1741 E. F. Haywood Anti-Pamela 19 'Tis your Business to make Hay while the Sun shines—for when Youth and Beauty are no more.
1795 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 296 While I was discussing the merits of a single measure of a government, the government itself was no more.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 152 Last spring he was living but now he's no more.
1871 R. Browning Balaustion 50 No, for I have to die:..but now, even now, I shall be reckoned among those no more.
1920 J. Hebblethwaite Poems 99 Dreaming of kisses, joys unutterable, And days that are no more.
1962 G. Corso Senile Genius in Long Live Man 53 Put him in the bin..He's finished! done for! No more.
2001 Church Times 21 Sept. 11/2 Alas, the most recent of our hamsters is no more. She..finally expired while we were on holiday.
2. With than. To no greater extent; in no greater degree; with no greater ease.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10223 Nohht ne maȝȝ he wurrþenn full..Na mar þann helle maȝȝ beon full.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 99 Ach namare þen aschep..quic ne queð he neauer.
a1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Vitell.) (1966) 291 (MED) Namore [c1330 Auch. Ne doute ȝou nammore wiȝalle, þan to miself hit hadde bifalle].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 502 (MED) Þai mai neuermar held til il Namar þan þe wick mai to god will.
c1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 190 No more than of the corne agayn the sheef.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxviii. 42 Eche of them..spared no thynge, no more than yf the Kynge of Englande had bene there in proper persone.
1595 T. Churchyard Musicall Consort: Churchyards Charitie 15 The woorst with best..striues for place..with scowling brazen face That cannot blush, no more than can blacke tike.
1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul §xxxii. 51 Thou..canst no more be absent, then not be thy self.
1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen iii. 29 Down I flounced to the very bottom, I could swim no more than a stone.
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 130 These Creatures cannot bear Heat no more than the Snails.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. xi. 62 The Lady, no more than her Lover, was remarkable for Beauty. View more context for this quotation
1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. 1806 I. 298 We majors, colonels, and generals..are so cheap and common here, that people don't mind us no more than nothing.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxii. 202 [Laura's eyes] could no more help so looking and shining than one star can help being brighter than another.
1887 W. F. Barry New Antigone I. i. i. 14 The artist, indeed, was no more inclined to speak than the hunting-man by his side.
1961 S. Price Just for Record (1962) 23 He could no more write words to a pop song..than break the sound barrier on his bicycle.
1990 R. Blount First Hubby 142 We aingon have no blood in Dingler, no more'n usual, if you just quit stirrin' up the white trash.
3. Negating a second or further alternative: nor yet, neither. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adverb] > neither
nouthereOE
no morec1385
both1485
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1173 It is nat likly al thy lyf To stonden in hir grace; namoore shal I.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 145 He schalle not trowe it lightly; And treuly no more did I.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 106 (MED) No more may þou lett þoghtis to com in þi harte.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxiii. 260 He..durst speake no worde,..and no more durst none of his men.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 6 You are not yong, no more am I. View more context for this quotation
a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden ii. i. 25 in Five New Playes (1659) Cros. Mad; are they not? And so will you be shortly, if you follow these courses... I do not like them. Mi. No more do I, Sir, if I knew how to be rid of 'hem.
1705 S. Centlivre Gamester iii. 36 No more don't a Highway Man,—and yet the World thinks both Lives equally immoral.
?1768 I. Bickerstaff Lionel & Clarissa ii. i. 27 Lion. Things shan't get the better of me Jenny. Jen. No more they don't ought.
1798 H. Foster Boarding School 14 Perhaps they have never been taught to use their needles. No more have I, returned the maid.
1839 C. F. Briggs Adventures Harry Franco II. v. 56 ‘Who would be a poet?’ ‘Not I, for one,’ I replied. ‘No more I would n't,’ said Mr. Stewpy.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 69 ‘I do not understand thee,’ quoth the Abbot. And no more he did.
1870 M. Arnold St. Paul & Protestantism 152 You have not righteousness... No more have you, though you think you have.
1922 T. S. Eliot Waste Land in Coll. Poems ii. 68 He said, I swear, I can't bear to look at you. And no more can't I, I said, and think of poor Albert.
1941 W. C. Williams Coll. Poems (1986) II. 24 You have not found a cure No more have I.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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