Accrescence

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  accrescence \ac*cres"cence\ ([a^]k*kr[e^]s"sens), n. [LL.
     accrescentia.]
     Continuous growth; an accretion. [R.]
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           The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched


           depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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