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crescive

American  
[kres-iv] / ˈkrɛs ɪv /

adjective

  1. increasing; growing.

Etymology

Origin of crescive

1560–70; < Latin crēsc ( ere ) to increase + -ive

Example Sentences

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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.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Grew like the summer Grass, fastest by night, Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

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