upgrowth

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
19
Letters
8

Definition of upgrowth

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
    “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.”
    “the new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy”

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Etymology

From up- + growth.

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