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NO MORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does no more mean? 

NO MORE (adverb)
  The adverb NO MORE has 2 senses:

1. not nowplay

2. referring to the degree to which a certain quality is presentplay

  Familiarity information: NO MORE used as an adverb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NO MORE (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not now

Synonyms:

no longer; no more

Context example:

she is no more


Sense 2

Meaning:

Referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present

Synonyms:

no; no more

Context example:

he was no heavier than a child


 Context examples 


Of this I am sure: the sun rises to-day on no more miserable house in all the great round of its daily course.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The great breast and heavy fore legs were no more than in proportion with the rest of the body, where the muscles showed in tight rolls underneath the skin.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We said no more as we approached the light, but made softly for the door.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For God's sake, say no more of his partners.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In the end they come to a standstill. They move no more. They are dead.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He crossed no more hills or divides, but automatically followed a large stream which flowed through a wide and shallow valley.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I tell you this plainly; and listen: for though I shall no more repeat what I am now about to say, I shall steadily act on it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At last, however, as we reached the thicker woods they gave up the chase, and we saw them no more.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The absolute necessity of seeming like herself produced then an immediate struggle; but after a while she could do no more.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

After that they threw stones no more, and White Fang understood and was satisfied.

(White Fang, by Jack London)



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