More vs Kore - What's the difference?
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(senseid) Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
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(arts, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
* 1966 , Spyros Meletz?s, Helen? A. Papadak?, Akropolis and Museum ,
* 1995 , Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels ,
* 2002 , Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion ,
As a noun more
is tomorrow.more
English
(wikipedia more)Etymology 1
From (etyl) more, from (etyl) .Determiner
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A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
Adverb
(-)Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more .
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Derived terms
* more or less * more so * less is moreSee also
* mostEtymology 2
From (etyl) more, ). More at (l).Etymology 3
From (etyl) moren, from the noun. See above.Verb
(mor)Statistics
*kore
English
Noun
(en-noun)page 42,
- Mus. No 685: Archaic kore' of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This '''kore''' is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other ' kores ,.
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- Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
page 9,
- Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai' (singular: ' kore ): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.