Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Greatness; superiority.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Greatness.
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- noun philosophy The state or condition of being
more .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Acoustic man, living in a simultaneous environment of electric information, is suddenly disillusioned about the ideal of moreness, whether it be more goods or more people or more security or more fame.
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Revelation should not merely shock; rather, professionally we use shock to awaken surprise, a fundamental, for human constructive movement toward moreness.
Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson
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Over time a merger of the values of the nurse and of the existing community would be reflected as moreness in each.
Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson
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This awesome and lonely human capacity for choice and novel evolvement presents both hope and fear as regards the unfolding of human "moreness."
Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson
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Assche is known for his love of abstraction, but he's clearly partial to contradiction too, because the huge, mysteriously shrouded thing at the center of his venue promised "moreness."
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"We went through a sort of baroque period, with an obsession for moreness," said Alan Koch, a principal at Taalman Koch Architecture in Los Angeles.
NYT > Home Page By SAM LUBELL 2010
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Surely we have moved along the road from Roman times to where a life and its extinguishing, the finality of its no-moreness, should be seen as sacred and treated accordingly.
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But I rebel against the impoverished imagination and ambition of some of what passes for popular fiction and TV and film drama; and it’s in that spirit of rebellion that I set out to write a book full of ‘moreness’.
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But I rebel against the impoverished imagination and ambition of some of what passes for popular fiction and TV and film drama; and it’s in that spirit of rebellion that I set out to write a book full of ‘moreness’.
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