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(b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of
the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as,
more durable; more active; more
sweetly.

Happy here, and more happy
hereafter.

&fist; Double comparatives were common among writers of the
Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter;
more dearer.

The duke of Milan

And his more braver daughter.

2. In addition; further; besides;
again.

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once
more,

Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.

More and more, with continual increase.
"Amon trespassed more and more." 2 Chron. xxxiii. 23. -
- The more, to a greater degree; by an added
quantity; for a reason already specified. -- The more --
the more, by how much more -- by so much more.
"The more he praised it in himself, the more he seems
to suspect that in very deed it was not in him.


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