crescive

[ kres-iv ]

adjective

1. increasing; growing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of crescive¹

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

Example Sentences

Changes in industrial conditions defeated his intentions with respect to artificers, and the Philadelphia fund proved far less crescive than the Boston one, but both have proved enough so to illustrate the procreative quality of money upon which Franklin was so fond of dilating.

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Its constitution has none of the fatal marks of completeness which her other republican constitutions have borne; on the contrary, there never was a period in modern times when to the outsider French institutions seemed as crescive as they do to-day.

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Institutions are either crescive or enacted.

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

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Grew like the summer Grass, fastest by night, Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

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Related Words

• burgeoning
• developing
• expanding
• flourishing
• spreading
• thriving
• viable