crescence
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See crescent.
Noun[edit]
crescence
- (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.
References[edit]
- “crescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.