All 3 Uses
moreover
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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- He was, moreover, esteemed by the women as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's "History of New England Witchcraft," in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed.†
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- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy-piggledy, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst—Heaven bless the mark!†
- He was, moreover, approaching the very place where many of the scenes of the ghost stories had been laid.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(moreover) in addition to what has just been said
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)