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moreover

adverb/moɹˈoʊ.vɚ/

What It Means

In addition to what has been said.

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Moreover in Context

“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.”

— 1928, E. M. Edghill, Categories, translation of original by Aristotle

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

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