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Adverb
once more (not comparable)
- Again, a further time, once again.
1913, Joseph C Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D Appleton and Company, →OCLC:I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
1918, W B Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see once, more.
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