Adverb

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To the (explicitly stated) extent that.

* , chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’

* 1963 , Mike Hawker, (Ivor Raymonde) (music and lyrics), (Dusty Springfield) (vocalist), (I Only Want to Be with You) (single),

Don?t know what it is that makes me love you so , / I only know I never want to let you go.

(lb) To the (implied) extent.

[= this long]

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}

# (lb) Very (positive clause).

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Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so' superb a woman as this under handicap ' so hard.

# (lb) Very (negative clause).

# Very much.

#*

Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust.

In a particular manner.

In the same manner or to the same extent as aforementioned; also.

* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

*:"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn." ¶ "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so ? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 19, author=Paul Fletcher, work=BBC Sport

, title= Blackpool 1-2 West Ham , passage=It was a goal that meant West Ham won on their first appearance at Wembley in 31 years, in doing so becoming the first team since Leicester in 1996 to bounce straight back to the Premier League through the play-offs.}}

(with as) To such an extent or degree; as.

Adverb

(-)

(label) Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point.

* 1526 , The Bible , tr. (William Tyndale), (w) 2:

And after they were warned in ther slepe, that they shulde not go ageyne to Herod, they retourned into ther awne countre another way.

Back (to a former place or state).

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), chapter=19

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(label) In return, as a reciprocal action; back.

* :

but Merlyn warned the kynge couertly that gweneuer was not holsome for hym to take to wyf / for he warned hym that launcelot shold loue her and she hym ageyne

* , II.31:

So women are never angrie, but to the end a man should againe be angrie with them, therein imitating the lawes of Love.

* , I.2.4.vii:

Thus men are plagued with women, they again with men, when they are of diverse humours and conditions.

* 1852–3 , (Charles Dickens), (Bleak House)

As he lies in the light before a glaring white target, the black upon him shines again .

Another time; once more.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again';

* , chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’

* 1931 , Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:

He tangled in tree-tops again' and ' again / And barely missed hitting a tri-motored plane.

* 1979 , Charles Edward Daniels et al., “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (song), Million Mile Reflections , Charlie Daniels Band, Epic Records:

Johnny said, “Devil, just come on back if you ever want to try again / I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I’m the best that’s ever been.”

* 2010 , Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian , 30 October:

The last sentence is so shocking, I have to read it again .

Over and above a factor of one.

* 1908 December 10, , “New Genera and Species of Crinoids”, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , Volume XXI, pp.229–230:

Cirri l-lxxx, 15, about 12mm. long; first two joints short, about twice as broad as long; third about one-third again' [=one and one-third times] as long as broad; fourth and fifth the longest, about half ' again [=one and a half times] as long as broad;.

# Tell me again, say again;

# I ask again, I say again;

# Here too, here also, in this case as well;

#*

A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again , the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

(label) In any other place.

(Francis Bacon)

(label) On the other hand.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564–1616)

The one is my sovereignthe other again is my kinsman.

Moreover; besides; further.

* (rfdate) Hersche

Again , it is of great consequence to avoid, etc.