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(qualifier:degree) Progressively more.
The road gets more and more steep.
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.
He started calling more and more frequently.
The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.
1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91:
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In a manner that progressively increases.
The wound hurt more and more as we walked on.
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?’
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35:His colour sicken'd more and more, He faded into age; And then his enemies began To show their deadly rage.
1782, Robert Burns, John Barleycorn:
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(modal) 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.
1864 September, “The Cadmean Madness”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 14:
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pl coraz (in a manner that progressively increases) · ja 更に (progressively more) · cmn 越來越 /越来越 (in a manner that progressively increases) · hy ավելի ու ավելի (progressively more) · mk сѐ повеќе и повеќе (progressively more) · ru всё бо́льше (progressively more) · it sempre più (progressively more) · hu egyre inkább (indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true) · pt cada vez mais (in a manner that progressively increases) · ja ますます (progressively more) · fi yhä enemmän (progressively more) · de immer (progressively more) · fi yhä enemmän (indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true) · hu egyre ... -bb/-abb/-ebb/-obb (progressively more) · hu egyre jobban (in a manner that progressively increases) · pl coraz (progressively more) · cmn 越來越 /越来越 (progressively more) · pl coraz bardziej (in a manner that progressively increases) · ca cada vegada més (progressively more) · de mehr und mehr (indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true) · es cada vez más (progressively more) · it viepiù (progressively more) · ru бо́льше и бо́льше (progressively more) · de im zunehmenden Maße (indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true) · pl coraz więcej (progressively more) · vo ai plu (progressively more) · fr de plus en plus (progressively more) · ia cata vice plus (progressively more) · sv allt (progressively more) · mk сѐ повеќе (progressively more) · mk повеќе и повеќе (progressively more) · ca cada cop més (progressively more) · sv mer och mer (progressively more) · nl meer en meer (progressively more) · ro din ce în ce mai (progressively more) · cmn 越來越多地 /越来越多地 (indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true) · pt cada vez mais (indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true) · fi yhä enemmän (in a manner that progressively increases) · de immer mehr (in a manner that progressively increases) · it viepiù (in a manner that progressively increases) · ro tot mai (progressively more) · ia de plus in plus (progressively more) · pt cada vez mais (progressively more) · fi yhä useammin (indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true) · ca més i més (progressively more) · pl coraz więcej (indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true) · la magis magisque (progressively more) · ia plus e plus (progressively more)