crescence

English

Etymology

See crescent.

Noun

crescence

1. (obsolete) increase; enlargement or growth
   • 1735, Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty:

     And toward the moon's attractive creſcence bend.

   • 1660, unknown, transl., Paracelsus' Archidoxis:

     There are found to be many superfluous Crescences.

References

• “crescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.