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upgrowth

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Etymology

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From up- +‎ growth.

Noun

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upgrowth (plural upgrowths)

  1. The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188:
      The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.
    • J. R. Green
      the new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy

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