moreover

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English

Etymology

From Middle English moreover, moreovere, morover, mooreover, more-overe, mare over, equivalent to more +‎ over.

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moreover (not comparable)

  1. (conjunctive) In addition to what has been said; furthermore; additionally.
    • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: Elkin Mathews, , →OCLC, page 61:
      For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.
    • 1928, E. M. Edghill, Categories, translation of original by Aristotle:
      The characteristics ‘terrestrial’ and ‘two-footed’ are predicated of the species ‘man’, but not present in it. For they are not in man. Moreover, the definition of the differentia may be predicated of that of which the differentia itself is predicated.
    • 1948, W.v.O. Quine, On What There Is:
      A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true.

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