once more
English
Adverb
once more (not comparable)
- Again, a further time, once again.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients[1]:
- I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp[2]:
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door.
- 1973, “Yesterday Once More”, in Now & Then, performed by the Carpenters:
- All my best memories come back clearly to me / Some can even make me cry, just like before / It's yesterday once more
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see once, more.
Translations
one more time — see once again