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English
Etymology
in- + creep
Verb
increep (third-person singular simple present increeps, present participle increeping, simple past and past participle incrept)
- (intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.
- 1849, Henoch Clapham, quoted in Jane Eliza Leeson, Chapters on Deacons
- First, order gone, and doores not being kept, / By baptisme heaps of prophane do rush. / With them, at length, a ministry incrept, / That with the horn God's ordinance did push.
1922, Thomas Hardy, In The Small Hours:It seemed a thing for weeping / To find, at slumber's wane / And morning's sly increeping, / That Now, not Then, held reign.
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