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increasement Now rare.|ɪnˈkriːsmənt|
Also 4–7 en-.
[f. increase v. + -ment.]
1. The action or process of increasing; growth, augmentation; multiplication: = increase n. 1, 2.
1509Bp. Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 292 Neuertheles by maryage & adioynyng of other blode, it toke some encreasement. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 1 The encreasement of the chyld in her wombe. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Ld. Chandos 60 Him sicknes took with sharpe incresment sore. 1609R. Barnerd Faithf. Shepheard Ep. Ded. 5 A mite in a great Treasurie is small in shew for encreasement thereunto. 1646Trapp Comm. John xvi. 22 He hides his love oft, as Joseph did, out of increasement of love. 1651tr. De las-Coveras' Hist. Don Fenise 101 The ease they would give him turneth into the encreasement of his paines.
2. That by which something is increased; an increment, addition, augmentation; progeny; produce: = increase n. 5–7.
1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 79 To brynge y⊇ catelle wt y⊇ encresement. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 140 With so much greater encreacementes of reuelation he did day by day more brightly shew it. 1612W. Shute tr. Fougasses' Venice i. 6 The buildings since then, ought rather to be called encreasements, as made..by little and little. 1878Law Rep. 4 Com. Pleas 442 Where the encroachment of a river was so gradual that..it could not be perceived, the increasement was got to the owner of the river. |