Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Increasing; growing; crescent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Increasing; growing.
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- adjective archaic
Increasing orgrowing . Marked by gradual spontaneous development.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Education is a thing of the spirit, it is instinct with life, [Greek: thermon ti pragma] as Aristotle would say, drawing upon resources that are not its own, "unseen yet crescive in its faculty" and in its growth taking to itself such outward form as it needs for the purpose of its inward life.
Cambridge Essays on Education Various
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They are crescive when they take shape in the mores, growing by the instinctive efforts by which the mores are produced.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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They are crescive when they take shape in the mores, growing by the instinctive efforts by which the mores are produced.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence, and ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.
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The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence and ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.
Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Robert Wuthnow says "a crescive society, one that is weak but on the rise, produces martyrs like those of early Christianity."
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Alvaro Vargas Llosa 2010
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Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Robert Wuthnow says "a crescive society, one that is weak but on the rise, produces martyrs like those of early Christianity."
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Alvaro Vargas Llosa 2010
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Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Robert Wuthnow says "a crescive society, one that is weak but on the rise, produces martyrs like those of early Christianity."
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Alvaro Vargas Llosa 2010
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March 28, 2009