Adverb

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(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;

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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.