reincrease
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Etymology edit
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Verb edit
reincrease (third-person singular simple present reincreases, present participle reincreasing, simple past and past participle reincreased)
- (transitive) To increase again. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Tho when they did perceave
Their wounds recur'd, and forces reincreast,
Of that good Hermite both they tooke their leave […]
Noun edit
reincrease (plural reincreases)
- A second or subsequent increase.