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- noun Plural form of
upgrowth .
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a branch of the species once considered inferior; and, third, by the powers of the world, who must prevent the upgrowths in America from offering malignant germs of unrest to their own systems of national government.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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