crescence

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English

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Etymology

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See crescent.

Noun

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crescence

  1. (obsolete) increase; enlargement or growth
    • 1735, Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty:
      And toward the moon's attractive creſcence bend.
    • 1660, unknown, transl., Paracelsus' Archidoxis:
      There are found to be many superfluous Crescences.

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