English
accrescence
Accrescence comes from Late Latin accrēscēns ‘growing, increasing’.
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEaccrēscēnsas accrescentia‘growing, increasing’
- Englishearliest quotation 1816accrescence
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEaccrēscēnsas accrescentia‘growing, increasing’
- Englishearliest quotation 1816accrescence
Earliest quotation: 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman's Manual: “the silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions…”
Every English word from Late Latin accrēscēns
Today it means
noun Continuous growth; an accretion.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Late Latin accrēscēns / accrescence