once more

English

Adverb

once more (not comparable)

  1. Again, a further time, once again.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      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.
    • 1973, “Yesterday Once More”, in Now & Then, performed by the Carpenters:
      All my best memories come back clearly to me / Some can even make me cry, just like before / It's yesterday once more
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see once, more.

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