no more
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]no more (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Not any more; no further.
- (idiomatic) Dead.
- She held him until he was no more.
- 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):
- This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
Adverb
[edit]no more (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) No longer; not any more.
- I will pay no more today.
- He will bother you no more.
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!
- 1817, Lord Byron, So, we'll go no more a roving:
- 1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More:
- Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen,
No more will he wander Lochaber again.
- 1972, “School's Out”, performed by Alice Cooper:
- [There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.
- 1973, Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born:
- I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.
- (dated) Equally not; not either.
- - I can't swim.
- No more can I.
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[edit]not any longer
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See also
[edit]Interjection
[edit]- Stop it! Don't continue!
- 2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams:
- The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.
Noun
[edit]- (idiomatic, rare) Something that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent.
- 2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen:
- So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!
- 2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse:
- We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.
References
[edit]- “no more”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “no more”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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