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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of increasing; gradual growth or increase; accretion.
n. That by which anything is increased; an increment.

Wiktionary

n. rare Continuous growth; an accretion.

GNU Webster's 1913

n. rare Continuous growth; an accretion.

Etymologies

From Italian, from Late Latin accrescentia (Wiktionary)

Examples

“This accrescence of objectivity in a Ghost that yet retains all its ghostly attributes and fearful subjectivity, is truly wonderful.”

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

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