Accrescence
Pronunciation
- RP IPA: /əˈkɹɛsəns/
Origin
From Italian, from Late Latin accrescentia
Full definition of accrescence
Noun
accrescence
(countable and uncountable; plural accrescences)- (rare) Continuous growth; an accretion.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy