growth

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noun development, progress

noun. gathering or amassing

noun. improvement, progress in development

noun. promotion, progress

noun. promotion, progress

noun. improvement, progress in development

noun. increase

1550s, from grow + -th (2), on model of health, stealth, etc. Cf. Old Norse groði, from groa "to grow." In this sense, Old English used grownes.

That it is one tree seems to be evident from the growth of the bark only on the outside.

That we pass out of this phase of being as we came into it, for Growth.

It must be a stage in its growth or it would not come into it.

In growth all is adjusted to capacity; it is not meant to shock, force, or frighten.

To the seeing eye decay is as fair as growth, and death as life.

He was now forty-five years of age, the forces of youth and growth had left him.

The question is, How was the land surface formed for the growth of plants?

The growth of the Hebrew idea was somewhat parallel to this.

We repeat that we are not much concerned with the growth of the idea of the power of God.

What the moral ends were depended upon the growth of the moral ideal.