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