Sentence:  Back and forth Duclos had to go , between M. de Cury and Jean Jacques and between the Duke d'Aumont and Jean Jacques again , as his little operetta , The Village Soothsayer , though still unperformed , took on ever <WSD>more</WSD> importance . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree