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English
Etymology
From Late Latin accrescentia. Compare Italian accrescente.
Pronunciation
Noun
accrescence (countable and uncountable, plural accrescences)
- (archaic) Continuous growth; an accretion.
1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman's Manual, page xli:the silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never-contradicted hearsay!
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