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no more

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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no more (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Not any more; no further.
  2. (idiomatic) Dead.
    She held him until he was no more.

Adverb

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no more (not comparable)

  1. (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.
  2. (dated) Equally not; not either.
    - I can't swim.
    - No more can I.

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Interjection

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no more

  1. 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

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no more (plural no mores)

  1. (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.

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