accrescence
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin accrescentia. Compare Italian accrescente.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈkɹɛsəns/
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Noun edit
accrescence (countable and uncountable, plural accrescences)
- (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!