Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Increase; growth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Increase; enlargement.

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  • noun obsolete increase; enlargement

Etymologies

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See crescent.

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Examples

  • "And conceive, sir," says my wife, "what must be the universal grief for the bridegroom so untimelily taken off in the primal crescence of his honeymoon!

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

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