increasement
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Noun
    
increasement (countable and uncountable, plural increasements)
- (rare) An increase; growth.
- (rare) An increment; an addition; augmentation.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
- ... diminishing the velocity with decreasements like to the increasements acquired in the descent
 
 
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
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References
    
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “increasement”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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