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ANY LONGER

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the present or from now on; usually used with a negative

Example:

the children promised not to quarrel any more

Synonyms:

any longer; anymore

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 Context examples: 

I'm loaded to the guards now, and if I sit here any longer, I'll get drunk.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Lady Bertram soon brought the matter to a certainty by carelessly observing to Mrs. Norris—I think, sister, we need not keep Miss Lee any longer, when Fanny goes to live with you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have another person's interest at present so much at heart, that I cannot think any longer about Frank Churchill.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

At this rate, I shall not pity the writers of history any longer.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Maybe we do, Sir Charles; but we are plain folk, my Jack and I, and we go as far as we see our way, and when we don’t see our way any longer, we just stop.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But you are distant from me, and it is possible that you may dread and yet be pleased with this explanation; and in a probability of this being the case, I dare not any longer postpone writing what, during your absence, I have often wished to express to you but have never had the courage to begin.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And so, ma'am, all these thing considered, said Mrs Musgrove, in her powerful whisper, though we could have wished it different, yet, altogether, we did not think it fair to stand out any longer, for Charles Hayter was quite wild about it, and Henrietta was pretty near as bad; and so we thought they had better marry at once, and make the best of it, as many others have done before them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I know it cannot, and I don't fear it any longer, for I'm sure I shall be your Beth still, to love and help you more than ever.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Perhaps you would rather not sit any longer on my knee, Miss Eyre?" was the next somewhat unexpected observation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

‘You have called me names enough,’ said he, ‘I will not stand it any longer.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)