no more meaning

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English [ edit ]

Pronunciation [ edit ], adjective [ edit ].

no more ( not comparable )

• ( idiomatic ) Not any more ; no further .
• 1969 December 7, Monty Python , “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch ”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus , spoken by Mr Praline ( John Cleese ): This parrot is no more ! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

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• c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare , “ The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies   [ … ] ( First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed [ ward ] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals) : If thou wilt not, befall what may befall, I'll speak no more ,—but vengeance rot you all!
• 1817 , Lord Byron , So, we'll go no more a roving :
• 1917 , Neil Munro , Lochaber No More : Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen, No more will he wander Lochaber again.
• 1972 , “ School's Out ”, performed by Alice Cooper : [There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.
• 1973 , Emil Cioran , translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born : I think of so many people who are no more , and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.
• ( dated ) Equally not; not either. - I can't swim. - No more can I.

Derived terms [ edit ]

• no more Mr. Nice Guy

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• 2009 , C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams : The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more . I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.

Noun [ edit ]

no more ( plural no mores )

• 2013 , Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen : So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!
• 2014 , Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse : We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.

References [ edit ]

• “ no more ”, in Lexico , Dictionary.com ; Oxford University Press , 2019–2022.
• “ no more ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .

Anagrams [ edit ]

• Monroe , Moreno , mooner , morone

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adjective as in dead

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• bereft of life
• bought the farm
• checked out
• gone to meet maker
• gone to reward
• not existing
• out of one's misery
• passed away
• pushing up daisies
• resting in peace

adjective as in gone

• disappeared
• disintegrated
• transferred
• down the drain
• not a sign of
• out the window
• taken a powder
• taken leave
• turned to dust

adjective as in neither

adjective as in out of business

• nonexistent

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Words related to no more are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word no more . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

adjective as in no longer alive

adjective as in not present, no longer in existence

adjective as in nor yet

conjunction as in nor yet

adjective as in no longer operating as a business

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Like another foul spirit being driven out, it may seek to tear her, but it will woo her no-more.

The star!No more it moves about the heavens afar,It standeth still.

There is an extreme form of putting our present doctrine that runs it into paradox: namely, the one-book-and-no-more maxim.

"An' d-don't yer say that n-no more," he stuttered in awkwardness.

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On this page you'll find 110 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to no more, such as: buried, deceased, late, lifeless, cold, and departed.

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Using “Anymore” and “No more” – part 2

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Meaning  1 : A definitive and permanent stop of an action, a thing or a person

There are no more eggs in the fridge. ( you or someone else ate all the eggs )

There are no more trees in the forest. ( you or someone cut down all the trees and did not replace them )

There is no more water in the bottle. ( the bottle is empty )

There are no more lazy students in our class. 

Meaning 2 : When you want to say that someone is dead.

Example : The famous old lady is no more .

                       In such cases, “no more” usually comes at the end of the sentence.

Meaning 3 : Saying that an action or practice will not be accepted any longer.

Examples : No more war. (put an end to war)

                        Silent no more (“we” will not be silent anymore)

                        Idle no more

                        No more coming late to class! (late-coming will not be accepted anymore)

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No More No More by Aerosmith

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• Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry , this song came at a time when Tyler was struggling to come up with effective lyrics for the tracks on Toys In The Attic . The band told him to write about what he knew, so he come up with words about life on road - the hotels, groupies, and boredom. Tyler calls the song "my diary."
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• Hal from Mpls Steve Tyler has said many times that this is his favorite Aerosmith song.
• Patrick from California Toys in the Attic was the first vinyl I ever bought with my own money. No more no more is for sure the best Aerosmith song, and one of my personal favorites of all groups. Felt like it written about my feelings of dealing with the world. Not only then, but even still today.
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What is Good Friday? What the holy day means for Christians around the world

Christians around the world observe Good Friday two days before Easter, but what is it, and why do they commemorate the holy day?

The holiday is part of Holy Week, which leads up to Easter Sunday. Palm Sunday kicks off the series of Christian holy days that commemorate the Crucifixion and celebrate Jesus Christ's resurrection.

"Good Friday has been, for centuries now, the heart of the Christian message because it is through the death of Jesus Christ that Christians believe that we have been forgiven of our sins," Daniel Alvarez, an associate teaching professor of religious studies at Florida International University, told USA TODAY.

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Good Friday is the day Christ was sacrificed on the cross. According to Britannica , it is a day for "sorrow, penance, and fasting."

"Good Friday is part of something else," Gabriel Radle, an assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, previously told USA TODAY. "It's its own thing, but it's also part of something bigger."

Are Good Friday and Passover related?

Alvarez says that Good Friday is directly related to the Jewish holiday, Passover.

Passover , or Pesach, is a major Jewish holiday that celebrates the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt.

"The whole Christian idea of atoning for sin, that Jesus is our atonement, is strictly derived from the Jewish Passover tradition," said Alvarez.

How is that possible?

According to the professor, Passover celebrates the day the "Angel of Death" passed over the homes of Israelites who were enslaved by the Egyptians. He said that the Bible states when the exodus happened, families were told to paint their doors with lamb's blood so that God would spare the lives of their firstborn sons.

Alvarez says this is why Christians call Jesus the "lamb of God." He adds that the symbolism of the "blood of the lamb" ties the two stories together and is why Christians believe God sacrificed his firstborn son. Because, through his blood, humanity is protected from the "wrath of a righteous God that cannot tolerate sin."

He adds that the stories of the exodus and the Crucifixion not only further tie the stories together but also emphasize just how powerful the sacrifice of the firstborn and the shedding of blood are in religion.

"Jesus is the firstborn, so the whole idea of the death of the firstborn is crucial," said Alvarez.

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Romeyka descended from ancient Greek but may die out as it has no written form and is spoken by only a few thousand people

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The precise number of speakers of Romeyka is hard to quantify. It has no written form, but has survived orally in the mountain villages around Trabzon, near the Black Sea coast.

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The Crowdsourcing Romeyka project invites native speakers across the world to upload a recording of themselves talking in the language. Ioanna Sitaridou, a professor of Spanish and historical linguistics, said she anticipated that many were likely to be in the US and Australia, as well as spread across Europe.

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Sitaridou has established that rather than having developed from modern Greek, Romeyka descended from the Hellenistic form of the language spoken in the centuries before Christ, and shares some key features with ancient Greek.

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The Democratic president issued the proclamation on Friday, calling on “all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.”

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“We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” said Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s press secretary. She assailed what she called the Biden administration’s “years-long assault on the Christian faith.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said on social media that the “Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter” and called the decision “outrageous and abhorrent.”

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said the Republicans criticizing Biden “are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful and dishonest rhetoric.”

“As a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American,” Bates said. “President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.”

The advocacy group GLAAD said in a statement that people can both celebrate Easter and show their support for the trans community.

“The date of Easter moves each year, while Trans Day of Visibility is always recognized on March 31, but this year right-wing politicians and talking heads are using the coincidental timing to overshadow the hope and joy that Easter represents,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD president and CEO.

Biden first issued a proclamation on transgender visibility in 2021 . Proclamations are generally statements about public policy by the president. But this year’s overlap with Easter and the heated tensions from the presidential campaign made the latest transgender proclamation a way for many Republicans to question the Democrat’s religious faith.

Biden devoutly attends Mass and considers his Catholic upbringing to be a core part of his morality and identity. In 2021, he met with Pope Francis at the Vatican and afterward told reporters that the pontiff said he was a “good Catholic” who should keep receiving Communion.

But Biden’s political stances on gay marriage and support for women having the right to abortion have put him at odds with many conservative Christians.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom has been one of the most progressive governors on criminal justice reform, but he doesn’t really want to hype that right now.

There’s no bigger example of this than death row, which I had a chance to visit last week.

A Hollywood set designer could not do better when it comes to decrepit horror.

The men are confined up to 148 hours each week in narrow concrete cells, 4 feet wide, layers of drab-colored institutional paint chipping off the walls. That’s about 20 hours every seven days for exercise, showers, sunlight.

The rest of the time they are locked behind bars covered with steel mesh so dense it was impossible to see through until I stuck my nose right up against it.

No one leaves those cages without chains — on their waists and wrists. Seriously, I saw an old guy chained to his walker.

But corrections officer Andrei Akinshin, who has guarded the giant black doors at the entrance of death row for more than a decade, told me he’s loved every minute of it. He likes the camaraderie of the isolated cellblock, and hearing the stories of the occupants, many of whom have lived there for decades.

“The inmates are human beings,” he said. “I am going to be sad to see them go.”

Grim setting, no reaper

By the end of summer, they will be gone and death row will no longer exist.

No one has been executed in California in decades , and Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in 2019 that no one will be under his watch.

He dismantled the death chamber and promised to do away with death row as a segregated (and expensive) cellblock, instead moving the condemned inmates to the general population. More than 100 men have already been transferred, as have all 20 of California’s condemned women.

Along with the announcement last week from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that the demise of death row is imminent, three other pieces of death penalty news dropped this week:

• Donald Trump renewed his call for a mandatory death penalty for the killing of law enforcement officers at the memorial for a slain New York detective.
• Santa Clara County Dist. Atty. Jeff Rosen is asking that 15 death penalty convictions from his county be converted to life without parole (LWOP), citing inherent problems with capital punishment including systemic racism (an L.A. Times exclusive).
• In a Friday hearing, Richard Allen Davis, who in 1993 kidnapped and killed 12-year-old Polly Klaas, will ask for his capital punishment conviction to be recalled based on a law that went into effect in 2022 . Polly’s father, Marc Klaas, is unsurprisingly extremely opposed to that.

Politics is not subtle

Marc Klaas is a high-profile advocate for tougher crime penalties who has suffered a loss that is hard for me to even imagine. His opposition to giving Davis life without parole will likely draw media attention to the hearing and the overall issue, which you can read about here .

Klaas told me that he sees Newsom’s move to close death row and the possible re-sentencing of Davis as linked.

“In my mind, those two things completely and totally negate the sentence that was handed down by the judge in this case,” he said. “It just seems like everything is falling apart.”

For the record, I completely understand Klaas’ position. Polly’s murder was horrific, and he fears a lesser sentence could allow Davis to cause harm behind bars — to other prisoners, through greater ability to contact the outside world.

Clarence Ray Allen , the last man executed in California, arranged the murder of three people — while he was serving a life sentence, Klaas points out.

“The only way really to stop the influence of any of these characters is to carry out the sentence, to execute them,” Klaas argues.

But I also think Rosen’s move to address what he sees as systemic wrongs is brave and based on a genuine desire to ensure that most fundamental and least-achieved principle of American justice: equality under the law. Black people comprise 35% of those on death row, despite being only 7% of California’s population.

There is no ambiguity that race places a part in capital cases — whether it’s the color of the defendant or the victim, or the inherent biases of prosecutors, juries and judges.

Klaas said that, like Rosen, he doesn’t “appreciate or accept racism in any form.”

Still, the fact remains that whether Davis (who is white) is re-sentenced or not, he no longer lives on death row and Newsom did that.

Davis has already been moved to a correctional medical facility in Stockton, where there will be no chains when he leaves his cell, and he could have the opportunity to work (with most of his pay going toward restitution) or take part in other programs.

There is, of course, nothing a politician hates more than nuance and complexity. And as Rosen and Klaas show, the death penalty debate is nothing but nuance and complexity.

Back to the ‘90s

I am betting that in coming days, we see these death penalty/death row moves added to the “failed California” narrative.

When Newsom made his sentiments about the death penalty public in 2019, criminal justice reform was a safe bet for a Democratic governor.

But in 2024, the political landscape couldn’t be more different , despite declining violent crime numbers . California is sliding back toward a tough-on-crime attitude, driven largely by an increase in organized retail left and the fentanyl crisis that has manifested on streets in places such as San Francisco.

Most of you are aware that the right-wingers have seized on highly troubling scenes of poverty, mental illness, addiction and despair as proof that Democratic policies — largely criminal justice reform — have failed , endangering public safety.

It’s a literal election-year street fight with presidential implications, both for Biden and Newsom (because we all know the gov would someday like to be the prez).

You’ve probably also noticed that Newsom has been slowly shuffling right when he talks about crime.

He’s sent National Guard troops into San Francisco’s Tenderloin. He’s backing more surveillance cameras in Oakland. He’s used the California Highway Patrol like a strike team, from policing city streets to running complex retail theft operations.

But death row is proof that despite the tough talk, Newsom is still pushing boundaries on criminal justice reform.

What else you should be reading

The must-read: Who is Don Hankey, the L.A. billionaire who financed Donald Trump’s appeal bond? (L.A. Times) The only in America: This wealthy Bay Area town is the first in California to have its housing element revoked (SF Chronicle) The L.A. Times Special: Prosecutors put men on death row. This one wants to take them off

Stay Golden, Anita Chabria

P.S. Times photographer Robert Gauthier was with me at death row. Here’s some of what he captured.

1. San Quentin inmate Kevin Bernoudy waits to be escorted from the East Block of Death Row. 2. A condemned inmate makes a phone call from his cell on San Quentin’s Death Row. 3. A condemned inmate is from his cell in San Quentin’s Death Row. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

1. San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. California is shutting down San Quentin’s death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at other prisons throughout the state. 2. On a tour of San Quentin Rehab Center’s death row. CDCR is moving to shut down death row at San Quentin. 3. San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. California is shutting down San Quentin’s death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at other prisons throughout the state. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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Anita Chabria is a California columnist for the Los Angeles Times, based in Sacramento. Before joining The Times, she worked for the Sacramento Bee as a member of its statewide investigative team and previously covered criminal justice and City Hall.

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