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Adverb

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moreandmore

  1. (degree) Progressively more.
    The road getsmore and more steep.
    (=steeper and steeper).
    He started callingmore and more frequently.
    • 1923,Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators),War and Peace,
      What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in hermore and more beaming face and quivering nose.
    • 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, inTrains Illustrated, page91:
      The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stockmore and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
  2. (manner) In a manner that progressively increases.
    The wound hurtmore and more as we walked on.
  3. (modal)Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.
    More and more, children are among the first to take up new technologies.
    • 1864 September, “The Cadmean Madness”, inThe Atlantic Monthly, volume14:
      More and more it is not the soul and Nature, but the eye and print, whose resultant is thought.

Usage notes

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  • The degree adverb sense is often an ellipsis of an instance of the more general phenomenon of reduplication of the comparative form of adjectives or adverbs (e.g. "hotter and hotter").

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progressively more
in a manner that progressively increases
indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true
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Determiner

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moreandmore

  1. Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of.
    There aremore and more people who keep pets these days.
    • 2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, inRAIL, number974, page 4:
      It's unarguable that ticket offices are less relevant than they once were.More and more passengers buy tickets online.

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Translations

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increasingly more
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