crescive

[ kres-iv ]
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adjective
  1. increasing; growing.

Origin of crescive

1
1560–70; <Latin crēsc(ere) to increase + -ive

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How to use crescive in a sentence

  • They are crescive when they take shape in the mores, growing by the instinctive efforts by which the mores are produced.

    Folkways | William Graham Sumner