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  1. adverb Once more; anew: Try again.
  2. adverb To a previous place, position, or state: left home but went back again.
  3. adverb Furthermore; moreover: Again, we need to collect more data.
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  • ( "What are our demands." in Punjabi - again despite the fact that he kept on asserting that he was from Hyderabad, AP). —  Drishtikone - Comments
  • Having him out in the community doing work, possibly talking with other kids to prevent this again is a better punishment! —  Lowell Sun Forum
  • Aboutreika again is a very good player, I would like to see him go to europe before its too late as he is getting on. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • Again and again -- again and again, I've worked with members of both parties to fix problems that need to be fixed. —  Latest News - UPI.com
  • When it got stuck there than your only chance to awake your Omnia again is a hardreset. —  MoDaCo WinMo News
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  1. Middle English (influenced by Old Norse i gegn, again), from Old English ongeagn, against.

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  1. The usual pron. a̤-gen′ is that of the spelling agen, which is still occasionally used, especially in poetry; the pron. a̤-gān′ follows the usual spelling again. The Middle English forms were numerous (of various types, agen, again, ayen, ayain, ayan, etc.), namely, agen, again, agein, agayn, ageyn, again (and with final -e, againe, etc.), ayen, ayein, ayeyn, etc., azen, azain, azein, ozein, etc., earlier anzen, onzein, from Anglo-Saxon ongegn, ongen, ongeán, later āgēn, āgeán (= Old Saxon angegin = Old High German ingagan, ingegin, ingagene, ingegane, Middle High German ingegene, engegene, engegen, German entgegen = Ieel. igegn (for *in gegn) = Danish igjen = Swedish igen), adverb and preposition, from on- for an- (in G. and Scandinavian in-), orig. and-, again, back, + *gegn, geán, in comp. gegn-, geagn-, geán-, over against: see a-, gain, and gain-. Cf. against.
 

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