Ac‐cres″cence (–krĕs″sens), n. [LL. accrescentia.] Continuous growth; an accretion.
The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy.
Coleridge.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.