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増
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Medicine
worsening; deterioration; exacerbation; aggravation (of a disease)
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Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
overconfidence; someone who is overconfident
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Buddhism
wrongly believing to have attained enlightenment
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Work of art, literature, music, etc. name
Samyutta Nikaya (Buddhist sutra); Gradual Collection; Numerical Discourses
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increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
Examples
われわれは彼をますます尊敬した。
We respected him all the more.
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still more; to say nothing of; not to mention
Examples
それらの星は肉眼で見える、まして望遠鏡ならなおさらである。
You can see the stars with your naked eye, and even better through a telescope.
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With neg. verb
still less
Examples
メアリーはフランス語を読むことさえできない、まして話すことはできない。
Mary can't even read French, much less speak it.
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I would rather; I would as lief do; strong preference
Examples
降伏するくらいなら死んだほうが増しだ。
I would rather die than yield.
