more and more

Definitions

1. 1

   Progressively more.

   • The road gets more and more steep.
   • He started calling more 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 her more and more beaming face and quivering nose.
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   In a manner that progressively increases.

   • The wound hurt more and more as we walked on.
   • His colour sicken'd more and more, He faded into age; And then his enemies began To show their deadly rage.
   • A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour ⁠For private sorrow’s barren song, ⁠When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power?’
3. 3

   Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.

   • More and more, children are among the first to take up new technologies.
   • More and more it is not the soul and Nature, but the eye and print, whose resultant is thought.
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      Increasingly more

      Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of.

      • There are more and more people who keep pets these days.
      • It's unarguable that ticket offices are less relevant than they once were. More and more passengers buy tickets online.

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