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English
Etymology
From up- + growth.
Noun
upgrowth (plural upgrowths)
- The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188:The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.
- J. R. Green
- the new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy
Translations
process or result of growing up