increasementn.
/ɪnˈkriːsmənt/ Now rare.
1. The action or process of increasing; growth, augmentation; multiplication: = increase n. 1, 2.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]
waxingc1055
increasingc1340
increasec1374
echinga1382
creasing1398
augmentinga1400
alarginga1425
moringa1425
augmentc1425
incrementc1425
creasec1440
increasement1509
enlarginga1513
enlargement1564
amplification1569
accession1570
usury1576
enhancement1577
growth1587
creasement1592
accrease1598
crescence1602
improvement1607
excrement1608
majoration1626
heightening1629
auction1692
turgescence1806
outgrowth1837
steepening1868
prolating1919
upgrading1920
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiii v Neuertheles by maryage, & adioynyng of other blode it toke some encreasement.
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. D.iiiv Ye encresement of the chyld in her wombe.
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 60 Him sicknes took with sharpe incresment sore.
1609 R. Bernard Faithfull Shepheard (new ed.) Ep. Ded. 5 A mite in a great Treasurie is small in shew for encreasement thereunto.
1646 J. Trapp Brief Comm. John xvi. 22 He hides his love oft, as Joseph did, out of increasement of love.
1651 tr. F. de Quintana 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.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring
seedOE
offspringOE
begottena1325
birtha1325
issuea1325
burgeoninga1340
fruit of the loinsa1340
young onec1384
increasement1389
geta1400
gendera1425
procreation1461
progeniturec1487
engendera1500
propagation1536
feture1537
increase1552
breed1574
spawn1590
bowela1593
teeming1599
pullulation1641
prolifications1646
educt1677
produce1823
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > an increase
eke894
increasec1384
eking1393
augmentationc1452
superexcrescence1479
access1548
accrue1548
accession1551
increasement1561
ekementa1603
afflux1603
accruement1607
increment1631
rise1654
plusa1721
raise1729
swell1768
gain1851
step-up1922
upcurve1928
build-up1943
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 79 To brynge ye catelle wt ye encresement.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 140 With so much greater encreacementes of reuelation he did day by day more brightly shew it.
1612 W. Shute tr. T. de Fougasses Gen. Hist. Venice ii. 6 The buildings since then, ought rather to be called encreasements, as made..by little and little.
1879 Law Rep.: Common Pleas Div. 4 442 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.
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