accrescence

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From Late Latin accrescentia. Compare Italian accrescente.

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accrescence (countable and uncountable, plural accrescences)

  1. (rare) Continuous growth; an accretion.
    • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman's Manual[1], page xli:
      the silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never-contradicted hearsay!

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